Hispanic Teens Don't Know Skin Cancer Risk
Posted on: Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 12:14 CDT
White Hispanic teens are more likely to use tanning beds and less likely to consider themselves at skin cancer risk, a survey of Florida students found.
Study leader Dr. Fangchao Ma of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and colleagues surveyed 369 Florida high school students -- 221 white Hispanics and 148 white non-Hispanics -- about their skin cancer knowledge, perceived risk and sun protection behaviors.
Compared with white non-Hispanic students, white Hispanic students were more likely to tan deeply.
The Hispanic teens were 60 percent less likely to have heard of skin self-examination and 70 percent less likely to have been told how to perform it, about 1.8 times as likely to never or rarely wear sun-protective clothing, about twice as likely to never or rarely use sunscreen and less likely to think they had an average or above-average risk for skin cancer
The findings were reported in the Archives of Dermatology.
Source: United Press International
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