Teens teach skin cancer prevention

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson H ; Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Fischer V ; Gunderson P ; Lappe K ; Reding DJ
• Description:
  Cumulative sun exposure has been linked to about 95 percent of all skin cancers. Farmers and their families, by nature of their occupations, are exposed to an abundance of sun over a long period of time and, therefore, are at an increased risk for skin cancer. Because education is known to be a primary means of health, Future Farmers of America (FFA) peer facilitators (teen educators) provided third graders in rural communities sun protection education with the hope that the message would reach the entire family. The FFA facilitators (n=227) from 39 FFA organizations throughout Wisconsin were trained with skin cancer and sun protection information. The FFA facilitators then gave presentations on sun protection to third graders (n=2,007) in their school districts. Control schools included 57 facilitators and 669 third graders. Evaluation involved pre-, post-, and six-month follow-up surveys testing knowledge gained by the third graders. Students who correctly responded to a question on the post-survey after incorrectly answering it on the pre-survey were said to have had a knowledge gain for that question. By using chi-square tests, the intervention group demonstrated a statistically significant (P
• Subjects:
  Aging Agriculture Behavior Education Family Farmers Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Skin Skin Diseases Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Age-groups Agricultural-workers Cancer Disease-prevention Families Health-surveys Questionnaires Safety-measures Safety-practices Skin-cancer Sunburns Sunscreening-agents Teaching

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• ISSN:
  0890-765X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  265-272
• Volume:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037723
• Citation:
  J Rural Health 1996 Dec; 12(S4):265-272
• Contact Point Address:
  Douglas I. Reding, MD, FACP, Oncologist Hematologist, Marshfeld Clinic, 1000 N. Oak Ave., Marshfeld, WI 54449
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Rural Health
• Supplement:
  S4
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1e2c10ba10c95cc6646b3f6516361055d4a481ad3ff5d22d2104c58adccedd709f017b7869cab14f4b1171911f71b77fc1d7a333f2a073c2a5eb6f4c1980c6ad
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191713/cdc_191713_DS1.pdf
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