Changing patterns of sun protection between the first and second summers for very young children.

Objectives: To determine if an intensive intervention directed to mothers of newborns would increase levels of sun protection practice and lower rates of sunburning for their children; and to examine changes in sun protection practices and burning rates experienced between the first and second summers of life.

Design: Randomized study.

Setting And Participants: Mothers of infants residing in the coastal town of Falmouth, Mass.

Sun protection policies and environmental features in US elementary schools.

Objective: To assess current sun protection policies and the receptiveness to new policies at elementary schools in the United States.

Design: A cross-sectional telephone survey.

Setting: General educational community.