Table 4.
Agreement in family-related beliefs among family member pairs before and after Suntalk intervention
| Percent agree | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/FDR (n=305 pairs) | Case/Parent (n=300 pairs) | |||||||
| In general, people in my family generally believe that: | Baseline | Followup | Sig* | Baseline | Followup | Sig* | ||
| tanned skin is healthy skin | I | 25 | 34 | .14 | 28 | 63 | .008 | |
| C | 24 | 21 | 27 | 28 | ||||
| having melanoma is serious threat | I | 21 | 49 | .04 | 24 | 34 | /19 | |
| C | 26 | 21 | 30 | 39 | ||||
| There is little they can do to protect themselves from getting cancer | I | 30 | 66 | ..01 | 22 | 59 | .03 | |
| C | 27 | 31 | 25 | 26 | ||||
| It is important to check their skin for signs of melanoma | I | 30 | 78 | .001 | 28 | 27 | .31 | |
| C | 30 | 34 | ||||||
| important to visit their doctor to screen for melanoma | I | 23 | 69 | .03 | 24 | 30 | .47 | |
| C | 25 | 23 | 21 | 24 | ||||
| Tanning lamps are good way to get tan | I | 20 | 65 | .01 | 24 | 81 | .001 | |
| C | 24 | 20 | 27 | 28 | ||||
*
significance of chi square tests on intervention and control frequencies from baseline to followup