Face-to-face sun protection training and text messages improve sun protection behaviour in adolescent organ transplant recipients: Hippolino feasibility study

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 341-345

  Sachse, Michael M ^a   Böttcher, Silke ^b   Pape, Lars ^c   Wagner, Gunnar ^a   Mehls, Otto ^d   Klaus, Günter ^e   Laschewski, Gudrun ^f   Barz, Mareike ^a   Jahn, Ingeborg ^b   Zeeb, Hajo ^b  

^a General Hospital Bremerhaven   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e KfH Pediatric Kidney Center   (Germany)

^f DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Organ transplant recipients; Skin cancer; Sun protection training; Text messages

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TEXT MESSAGING; UV INDEX; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; GERMANY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROTECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBURN; TIME FACTOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; AUSTRIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBURN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXT MESSAGING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959162591     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-2234     Document Type: Article

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