Department of Public Health, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2013 Apr 4;10:E48. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120200.
Magazines focused on parenting are popular in the United States, and parents may use them to guide decisions about the health of their children. We analyzed issues of 2 popular parenting magazines published in the past 11 years during the months of peak ultraviolet radiation exposure for content related to sun protection and for advertisements for skin products that did and did not contain sun protection factor. Only 24 of 2,594 articles addressed the topic of sun protection for skin cancer prevention. Although advertising is pervasive in these magazines, the extent to which such advertising focuses on products with sun protection factor was low. These findings suggest that parenting magazines can do more to assist parents in making informed decisions about preventing skin cancer risk among youth.
育儿杂志在美国很受欢迎，父母可能会用它们来指导孩子健康方面的决策。我们分析了过去 11 年中在紫外线辐射最强的月份出版的两本流行育儿杂志的内容，这些杂志与防晒有关的内容和有或没有防晒因子的皮肤产品广告。在 2594 篇文章中，只有 24 篇涉及皮肤癌预防的防晒主题。尽管这些杂志广告无处不在，但这类广告关注具有防晒因子产品的程度很低。这些发现表明，育儿杂志可以做更多的工作来帮助父母做出明智的决策，以降低青少年患皮肤癌的风险。
