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NCT Number: NCT03627260

How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

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Key information

Conditions

Quantity of Sunscreen Sun Protection Factor Sun Safety Campaigns Sunscreen Use

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Bispebjerg Hospital

Copenhagen NV, DK, 2400, Denmark

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • European descent

Exclusion criteria

  • Skin disease
  • allergy to the content in sunscreen
  • Pregnancy
  • Breastfeeding

Treatment and study plan

Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, Actinica

Behavioral

Volunteers were asked to follow the rule of thumb: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body".

Primary outcomes

  1. The overall quantities of sunscreen applied were calculated from the weighed amount of sunscreen used divided by the skin area accessible for sunscreen application.

    Time frame: Outcome measure will be assessed within half an hour after sunscreen application. There will be no further follow up.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Bispebjerg Hospital

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2017
Study completion
2017
First posted
Aug 13, 2018
Registry last updated
Aug 13, 2018

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