Hay Jennifer L, Riley Kristen E, Geller Alan C
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Aug;26(8):1170-1174. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0095.
Because of recent state regulations and the reduced availability of free-standing tanning salons, indoor tanning (IT) prevalence is beginning to decline. This may lead to unintended consequences, such as increases in outdoor intentional tanning. We advance a series of research directions to track and intervene to address all forms of intentional tanning. First, we advocate for enforcement of IT regulation and encourage collection of data on tanning salon compliance and alternative IT strategies. Second, we suggest questions about outdoor and IT should be included in national surveys. Third, we need to understand the potentially complex patterns of indoor and outdoor tanning that may exist among those who tan. Fourth, research examining changing motivations for intentional tanning is needed. Finally, IT intervention studies should include outdoor tanning as an outcome to examine the effect of interventions on these related risk behaviors. These advances will ensure the development of novel interventions to address intentional tanning through multiple routes, and to avoid any unintended negative consequence of IT regulation. The promising downward direction of IT use in the United States should now lead the public health field to sharpen its focus on outdoor tanning. .
由于近期的州法规以及独立晒黑沙龙的可及性降低，室内晒黑（IT）的流行率开始下降。这可能会导致意想不到的后果，比如户外故意晒黑的情况增加。我们提出了一系列研究方向，以跟踪和干预各种形式的故意晒黑行为。首先，我们主张加强对室内晒黑的监管，并鼓励收集有关晒黑沙龙合规情况以及室内晒黑替代策略的数据。其次，我们建议全国性调查应纳入有关户外晒黑和室内晒黑的问题。第三，我们需要了解那些进行晒黑的人可能存在的室内和户外晒黑的潜在复杂模式。第四，需要开展研究来考察故意晒黑动机的变化。最后，室内晒黑干预研究应将户外晒黑作为一项结果，以检验干预措施对这些相关风险行为产生的影响。这些进展将确保开发出通过多种途径解决故意晒黑问题的新型干预措施，并避免室内晒黑监管带来任何意想不到的负面后果。美国室内晒黑使用情况出现的这种有希望下降的趋势，现在应促使公共卫生领域更加关注户外晒黑。
