Table 2.

Coding, categorizing, subcategorizing, and theme extraction procedure

Code	Subcategory	Category	Theme
Active at night	Change of work time	Protective attempts	Perceived sensitivity
Less active while in the sunlight
Active in the evening
Wearing a hat while working	Using protective
Wearing sunscreen
Wearing long sleeves
Wearing a hat to protect skin from wrinkles
Wearing a hat to prevent preterm old age
Not wearing a hat	Not showing protective behaviors	Passivity in self-protection
Not wearing proper clothes
Not wearing sunscreen
Not visiting a skin specialist	Not examining skin
Lack of self-examination of the skin
Lack of examination by dermatologist in the health center
Not wearing sunscreen and perceiving cancer as fateful	Beliefs impeding preventive behaviors	Inadequate awareness of affliction risk
Not wearing proper clothes and perceiving cancer as punishment
Not showing protective behaviors and perceiving cancer as genetic
Not showing protective behaviors and not pondering upon skin cancer
Not showing protective behaviors and perceiving disease as originating from God
Not wearing a hat and perceiving cancer as a divine trial
Not showing protective behaviors and not perceiving self as susceptible	Low sensitivity
Not showing protective behaviors and not perceiving skin cancer prevalent among sailors
Not perceiving oneself susceptible to skin cancer due to work conditions
Depression	Loss of peace	Perceived threat to personal and familial conditions	Perceived severity
Disappointment and aloofness
Feeling incapable and weak
Loss of peace
Fear of cancer
Worries and grief
Individual’s disappearing role in family	Loss of professional and familial position
Concern for family
Reason for unemployment
Feeling humiliated in family
Perceiving cancer as severe and incurable	Perceiving the disease as incurable	Threat to health
Perceiving cancer equal to death
Perceiving cancer as fatal
Dried skin	Feeling to have skin problems
Skin blisters
Wounded and itchy skin
Dehydration
Sunburn