Scheltinga Fay, Shibl Rania, Green Adele C, Ng Shu-Kay, Scuffham Paul A, Cameron Cate M
Athena Institute, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2014 Dec;38(6):513-7. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12272. Epub 2014 Oct 12.
To compare sun protection by Australian-born and migrant mothers of three-year-old children.
Australian-born and migrant mothers taking part in the Environments for Healthy Living prospective birth-cohort study were asked standard questions about their child's sun protection. Children were given a skin cancer susceptibility score based on grandparents' ethnic origin. Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) to measure the association of sun protection of children according to mothers' migrant status adjusted for socio-demographic characteristics.
A total of 613 Australian-born and 224 migrant mothers of three-year-old children were studied. Mothers who had migrated less than four years ago were more likely to allow their three-year-old to spend more than two hours outdoors between 10 am and 3 pm compared to Australian-born mothers (OR=2.80, 95%CI 1.20-6.57). Mothers from high latitude countries (>45 degrees) were more likely to apply sunscreen to their child than those from lower latitude countries (OR=3.15, 95%CI 1.03-9.61).
Strategies should aim to increase general awareness about the need for sun protection of young children, and recent migrants should be alerted to the harms of excessive sun exposure.
比较澳大利亚出生的三岁儿童母亲和移民母亲对孩子的防晒情况。
参与“健康生活环境”前瞻性出生队列研究的澳大利亚出生的母亲和移民母亲被问及有关孩子防晒的标准问题。根据祖父母的种族背景为孩子给出皮肤癌易感性评分。使用逻辑回归估计优势比（OR），以衡量根据母亲移民身份并调整社会人口学特征后孩子的防晒关联。
共研究了613名澳大利亚出生的三岁儿童母亲和224名移民母亲。与澳大利亚出生的母亲相比，四年前内移民的母亲更有可能允许其三岁孩子在上午10点至下午3点之间在户外待超过两小时（OR = 2.80，95%CI 1.20 - 6.57）。来自高纬度国家（>45度）的母亲比来自低纬度国家的母亲更有可能给孩子涂抹防晒霜（OR = 3.15，95%CI 1.03 - 9.61）。
应制定策略提高对幼儿防晒必要性的普遍认识，并提醒新移民注意过度日晒的危害。
