Parent reports of sun safety communication and behaviour for students in a randomised trial on a school policy implementation intervention.

Objective: Schools are an important setting for skin cancer prevention. An intervention for implementation of school sun safety policy, Sun Safety Schools (SSS), was evaluated.

Methods: Primary schools (n=118) in California school districts that had already adopted a sun safety policy were enrolled in a study with a randomised controlled design.

Randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention supporting implementation of sun safety policies in California public elementary schools.

Solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) exposure is the primary risk factor for skin cancer and children receive about one-quarter of lifetime UV exposure before age 18. Thus, skin cancer prevention is essential for children. The objective of this study was to test an intervention to facilitate implementation of district sun safety policies.

School-Level Factors Associated with Sun Protection Practices in California Elementary Schools.

Background: This study examined implementation of district sun safety policy in schools and tested correlates of implementation in California public school districts.

Methods: Principals (N = 118) and teachers (N = 113) in California public elementary schools (N = 118) were recruited and completed a survey on sun protection policies and practices. The sample contained schools whose districts subscribed to the California School Boards Association and adopted Board Policy 5141.

Economic Evaluation of a Sun Protection Promotion Program in California Elementary Schools.

Background: An economic evaluation of Sun Safe Schools intervention designed to aid California elementary schools with implementing sun safety practices consistent with local board-approved policy.

Design: Program cost analysis: intervention delivery and practice implementation.

Setting: California elementary schools (58 interventions and 60 controls).

Accuracy of Principal and Teacher Knowledge of School District Policies on Sun Protection in California Elementary Schools.

Introduction: Policy is a key aspect of school-based efforts to prevent skin cancer. We explored the extent and accuracy of knowledge among principals and teachers in California public school districts about the elements specified in their district's written sun safety policy.

Methods: The sample consisted of California public school districts that subscribed to the California School Boards Association, had an elementary school, adopted Board Policy 5141.

Sun Protection Policies in Public School Districts With Elementary Schools in California.

This study examines sun safety policies and deviation from a 2005-disseminated sample policy among member districts of the California School Boards Association.

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.