The SunWise Policy intervention for school-based sun protection: a pilot study.

Skin cancer is highly preventable, but clearly there is a critical need to focus on better ways to disseminate information about known skin cancer prevention. The U.S.

Multiple levels of influence in the adoption of sun protection policies in elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Objective: To understand the factors that may influence sun protection policy development if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines are to be realized.

Design: Qualitative research methodology incorporating a socioecological framework using individual or small-group interviews, surveys, and environmental assessments with school superintendents, elementary school principals, elementary school nurses, and parent-teacher organization presidents and co-chairs as well as coding of school documents.

Setting: Elementary schools in Massachusetts.