Table 1.

Participants’ skin type.

Skin Type	% Participants
Type 1: Pale skin, burns easily and rarely tans. Generally have light coloured or red hair and freckles.	11
Type 2: Fair skin that usually burns, but may gradually tan.	32
Type 3: Skin that burns with long or intense exposure to the sun but generally tans quite easily.	32
Type 4: Olive-coloured skin that tans easily, but could possibly burn with lengthy exposures to intense sunshine.	20
Type 5: Naturally brown skin, with brown eyes and dark hair. Skin darkens easily with sun exposure and only burns with excessive exposure to the sun.	5
Type 6: Black skin with dark brown eyes and black hair. Skin very easily darkens on exposure to sun and would very rarely, if ever, burn.	0