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Sun protection counseling for children : primary care practice patterns and effect of an intervention on clinicians . OBJECTIVES To describe current primary care sun protection advice for children and assess the effect on clinicians of an intervention to enhance their sun protection advocacy . SETTING Primary care practices caring for children in New Hampshire with special attention to clinicians serving 10 towns that were involved in a randomized controlled trial of the multicomponent SunSafe intervention involving schools , recreation areas , and primary care practices . DESIGN/INTERVENTION A statewide survey of all primary care clinicians serving children addressed their self-reported sun protection advocacy practices . Clinicians in 10 systematically selected rural towns were involved in the subsequent intervention study . The primary care intervention provided assistance to practices in establishing an office system that promoted sun protection advice to children and their parents during office visits . MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Sun protection promotion activities of primary care clinicians as determined by their self report , research assistant observation , and parent interviews . RESULTS Of 261 eligible clinicians responding to the statewide survey , about half provide sun protection counseling " most of the time " or " almost always " during summer well care visits . Pediatricians do so more often than family physicians . Clinicians involved in the intervention increased their use of handouts , waiting room educational materials , and sunscreen samples . Compared with control town parents , parents in intervention towns reported an increase in clinician sun protection advice . CONCLUSIONS The SunSafe primary care intervention increased sun protection counseling activities of participating clinicians . A single-focus preventive service office system is feasible to include in community interventions to promote sun protection .
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Intervention_Educational
Sun protection counseling for children :
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Intervention_Educational
primary care sun protection
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Intervention_Educational
SunSafe
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Intervention_Educational
primary care intervention provided assistance to practices in establishing an office system that promoted sun protection advice to children and their parents during office visits .
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Outcome_Other
effect on clinicians
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Outcome_Other
sun protection advocacy .
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Outcome_Other
sun protection advocacy practices .
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Outcome_Other
Sun protection promotion activities
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Outcome_Other
provide sun protection counseling " most of the time " or " almost always "
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Outcome_Other
use of handouts , waiting room educational materials , and sunscreen samples .
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Outcome_Other
clinician sun protection advice
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Outcome_Other
sun protection counseling activities
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Outcome_Other
feasible
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Outcome_Other
sun protection
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Participant_Condition
clinicians
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Participant_Condition
primary care clinicians serving children
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Participant_Sample-size
261 eligible clinicians