Table 3.
Results of Linear Regression Analyses Examining Correlates of Sun Protection Variables
| Sunscreen Use | Staying in the Shade | Use of Sun-Protective Clothing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wald’s F | b | Wald’s F | b | Wald’s F | b | |
| Family history of skin cancer | 0.21 | 0.39 | 1.34 | |||
| Family member with melanoma | 0.03 | 0.00 | −0.24 | |||
| Family member with non-melanoma skin cancer | −0.13 | −0.13 | 0.12 | |||
| No family history of skin cancer | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Health Communication Variables | ||||||
| Hours of weekly Internet use | 1.79 | 0.58 | 1.72 | |||
| 0 | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| 1–7 | 0.27 | −0.12 | −0.15 | |||
| ≥ 8 | 0.20 | 0.01 | −0.18 | |||
| Read newspaper or magazine health sections in the past 12 months | 3.18 | 0.34 | 0.08 | |||
| No | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Yes | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.02 | |||
| Watched health segments on the local news in the past 12 months | 3.15 | 0.26 | 0.28 | |||
| No | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Yes | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.04 | |||
| Read unsolicited health information on the Internet in the past 12 months | 4.03 | 0.18 | 0.99 | |||
| Never use Internet | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| No | 0.12 | −0.04 | −0.12 | |||
| Yes | −0.35 | −0.07 | −0.13 | |||
| Looked for health information for self on the Internet in the past 12 months | 5.40* | 0.60 | 1.18 | |||
| Never use Internet | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| No | 0.12 | −0.12 | −0.15 | |||
| Yes | 0.39* | −0.01 | −0.11 | |||
| Looked for information about protecting self from the sun on the Internet in the past 12 months | 7.07* | 0.30 | 4.69† | |||
| Never use Internet | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| No | 0.18 | −0.07 | −0.17 | |||
| Yes | 0.66** | −0.01 | 0.10 | |||
| Ever visited a Web site to learn about cancer | 2.09 | 1.14 | 2.73 | |||
| Never use Internet | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| No | 0.23 | −0.13 | −0.19 | |||
| Yes | 0.31 | 0.04 | −0.02 | |||
| Skin Cancer Mental Model Variables | ||||||
| Perceived causes of skin cancer | 0.46 | 1.72 | 0.72 | |||
| Lifestyle and everything | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Lifestyle but not everything | −0.02 | −0.25 | −0.14 | |||
| Neither lifestyle nor everything | −0.15 | −0.28 | −0.12 | |||
| Perceived preventability of skin cancer (higher score = more preventable) | 2.32 | 1.20 | 0.45 | |||
| 0–2 | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| 3 | 0.37 | 0.60 | 0.15 | |||
| 4 | 0.34 | 0.57 | 0.06 | |||
| 5 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.09 | |||
| Know a symptom of skin cancer | 3.82 | 0.85 | 0.15 | |||
| No | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Yes | 0.27 | −0.15 | −0.04 | |||
| Number of people who develop skin cancer who survive at least 5 years | 1.81 | 0.59 | 1.35 | |||
| ≤ 25% | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| About 50% | −0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | |||
| About 75% | 0.02 | 0.20 | 0.16 | |||
| Nearly all | −0.09 | 0.19 | 0.19 | |||
| Don’t know | 0.72 | 0.29 | −0.04 | |||
| Believe that skin cancer develops over a period of several years | 0.25 | 0.95 | 0.02 | |||
| No | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| Yes | −0.05 | −0.12 | −0.01 | |||
Note. b = unstandardized regression coefficient; Ref = reference group.
†
p = .01.
*
p< .01,
**
p< .001. All regressions controlled for gender, age, race/ethnicity, education, and marital status.