Expanding occupational sun safety to an outdoor recreation industry: a translational study of the Go Sun Smart program.

A successful occupational sun-protection program was translated to 67 ski areas where the effectiveness of two dissemination strategies was assessed. An industry professional association distributed materials to the resorts. Half of the resorts received the basic dissemination strategy (BDS) in which the materials were simply distributed to the resorts.

Enhancing industry-based dissemination of an occupational sun protection program with theory-based strategies employing personal contact.

Purpose: Industry-based strategies for dissemination of an evidence-based occupational sun protection program, Go Sun Smart (GSS), were tested.

Design: Two dissemination strategies were compared in a randomized trial in 2004-2007.

Setting: The North American ski industry.

Sustainability of the dissemination of an occupational sun protection program in a randomized trial.

Sustainability of an occupational sun safety program, Go Sun Smart (GSS), was explored in a randomized trial, testing dissemination strategies at 68 U.S. and Canadian ski areas in 2004-2007.

Motivating public school districts to adopt sun protection policies: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: In 2002, CDC recommended that the nation's schools establish policies that reduce sun exposure to decrease students' risk of skin cancer.

Purpose: A program to convince public school districts to adopt such a policy was evaluated.

Design: RCT.

Randomized trial evaluating computer-based sun safety education for children in elementary school.

Background: Interactive multimedia programs derived from the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways (SDHW) sun safety curriculum were evaluated with children aged 5-13.

Methods: A randomized pretest to posttest 3-group study was conducted with 871 students in 12 primary schools in the western United States comparing computer programs alone, teacher-led presentation, or both combined.

Results: Computer programs with teacher-led presentation improved knowledge over either treatment individually (P = .