Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10022 USA.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.
Transl Behav Med. 2014 Jun;4(2):209-19. doi: 10.1007/s13142-014-0257-0.
This study examined health belief model (HBM) relevant constructs in the context of indoor tanning cessation. Telephone interviews were conducted between December 2011 and April 2012 with participants drawn from the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) population, specifically, former tanning bed users (N = 14, all females; mean age, 25.65 years) who reported frequent use in 2007, but had quit by 2010. Participants identified important motivations for quitting including health and financial reasons and the central role of family and friends in providing encouragement for indoor tanning cessation. However, participants also noted substantial barriers to maintaining indoor tanning quitting (e.g., social pressures to look good, tanning salon incentives). Participants' experience of withdrawal highlighted psychological factors more often than physical factors; some were open to resuming use in the future. The findings will be useful in intervention development to encourage cessation, the strengthening of policies to regulate the indoor tanning industry, as well as public health messaging to raise awareness of this prevalent, easily accessible cancer risk behavior.
本研究考察了健康信念模型（HBM）在室内晒黑戒除方面的相关结构。 2011 年 12 月至 2012 年 4 月期间，通过成长今日研究（GUTS）人群进行了电话访谈，具体来说，是以前经常使用晒黑床的参与者（N=14，均为女性；平均年龄为 25.65 岁），他们在 2007 年报告了频繁使用，但在 2010 年已经停止使用。参与者确定了重要的戒烟动机，包括健康和经济原因，以及家人和朋友在鼓励室内晒黑戒烟方面的核心作用。然而，参与者也指出了维持室内晒黑戒烟的实质性障碍（例如，看起来好看的社会压力，晒黑沙龙的激励措施）。参与者的戒断经历强调了心理因素而不是身体因素；有些人对未来重新使用持开放态度。这些发现对于鼓励戒烟的干预措施的制定、加强室内晒黑行业的政策以及提高公众对这种普遍存在的、易于获得的癌症风险行为的认识的公共卫生信息传递将非常有用。
