Feasibility of a GP delivered skin cancer prevention intervention in Australia

Vuong, Kylie; Trevena, Lyndal; Bonevski, Billie; Armstrong, Bruce K

doi:10.1186/1471-2296-15-137

BMC Primary Care

Table 2 Sun-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour at baseline, one and 13 month follow up - Sydney, Australia, 2010- 2012

From: Feasibility of a GP delivered skin cancer prevention intervention in Australia

	Intervention			Control			Mean difference between intervention and control (95% confidence intervals)^b	p value
	n^a	Mean	SE	n^a	Mean	SE		p value
Sun protection behaviour
Sun protection score^c
Baseline	50	16.70	0.57	50	14.9	0.49
Follow up at 1 month	43	15.61	0.36	45	15.62	0.35	-0.004 (-1.02, 1.01)	0.99
Follow up at 13 month	37	16.64	0.35	34	16.39	0.37	0.26 (-0.78, 1.29)	0.63
Hours spent outdoors per day
Baseline	49	2.05	0.24	49	2.66	0.28
Follow up at 1 month	42	2.28	0.16	43	2.33	0.16	-0.06 (-0.51, 0.40)	0.81
Follow up at 13 month	37	2.07	0.22	33	2.41	0.23	-0.34 (-0.98, 0.30)	0.29
Knowledge score^d
Baseline	49	4.59	0.16	49	4.16	0.18
Follow up at 1 month	41	5.03	0.16	43	4.55	0.15	0.48 ( 0.04, 0.92)	0.034
Follow up at 13 month	36	4.63	0.13	33	4.62	0.14	0.01 (-0.38, 0.40)	0.96
Sun protection attitudes^e
Perceived severity^f
Baseline	50	10.8	0.30	49	10.51	0.28
Follow up at 1 month	43	10.85	0.21	44	10.67	0.21	0.19 (- 0.41, 0.78)	0.53
Follow up at 13 month	37	10.14	0.26	33	10.54	0.28	-0.40 (-1.16, 0.37)	0.30
Perceived vulnerability^g
Baseline	50	4.74	0.34	48	5.02	0.33
Follow up at 1 month	43	4.66	0.25	43	4.27	0.25	0.40 (-0.32, 1.11)	0.28
Follow up at 13 month	37	4.89	0.37	32	5.44	0.39	-0.54 (-1.62, 0.54)	0.32
Response efficacy^h
Baseline	50	4.60	0.08	50	4.80	0.06
Follow up at 1 month	43	4.34	0.10	45	4.52	0.10	-0.18 (-0.47, 0.11)	0.22
Follow up at 13 month	37	4.40	0.12	34	4.62	0.13	-0.22 (-0.58, 0.13)	0.21
Self efficacy^f
Baseline	50	10.22	0.30	50	9.04	0.35
Follow up at 1 month	43	9.07	0.28	45	9.73	0.27	-0.66 (-1.45, 0.14)	0.10
Follow up at 13 month	37	7.92	0.33	34	7.68	0.35	0.25 (-0.73, 1.22)	0.62
Social normsⁱ
Baseline	50	6.22	0.21	50	5.74	0.22
Follow up at 1 month	43	6.18	0.20	45	5.76	0.20	0.42 (-0.16, 0.99)	0.15
Follow up at 13 month	37	5.76	0.21	34	5.88	0.21	-0.12 (-0.72, 0.48)	0.69
Attractiveness of tanning^h
Baseline	50	3.30	0.13	50	3.38	0.12
Follow up at 1 month	43	3.46	0.11	45	3.28	0.11	0.18 (-0.14, 0.50)	0.27
Follow up at 13 month	37	3.22	0.12	34	2.88	0.12	0.34 (-0.005, 0.69)	0.053

^aNumber of respondents with sufficient data for analysis.
^bAdjusted for the corresponding baseline value, age and sex.
^cRange of values was 5-25 (composite of 5 questions where 1 = never to 5 = always).
^dRange of values was 0-6 (total number of correct answers).
^eExpressed in terms of key components of protection motivation theory (Rogers, 1983 [21]).
^fRange of values was 3-15 (composite of 3 questions where 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree).
^gRange of values was 2-10 (composite of 2 questions where 1 = less than 20% chance of skin cancer to 5 = 81-100% chance of skin cancer).
^hRange of values was 1-5 (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree).
ⁱRange of values was 2-10 (composite of 2 questions where 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree).

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