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. 2021 May 6;9(5):e25895. doi: 10.2196/25895

Table 2.

Daily sunburns and UV-B dose experienced by participants and mean proportion of each day spent outside by all participants during the 3 periods (days 0-7, days 8-17, and days 18-28).

Variables Days 0-7 Days 8-17 Days 18-28 P valuea
Population, n 42 42 42 N/Ab
Individual participants

Number of sunburns, n (%) .55


0 24 (57) 27 (64) 25 (59)


1 12 (29) 8 (19) 8 (19)


2 4 (10) 5 (12) 6 (14)


More than 2 2 (5) 2 (5) 3 (7)

UV-B daily dose (J/m2), mean (SD)c 91.96 (115.34) 74.97 (82.32) 62.73 (71.44) .08
Sample

Proportion of each day spent outside, mean (SD) 0.87 (0.19) 0.84 (0.21) 0.81 (0.24) .05


6-7:59 AM 0.15 (0.25) 0.14 (0.20) 0.14 (0.21) .93


8-9:59 AM 0.19 (0.21) 0.18 (0.20) 0.18 (0.22) .93


10-11:59 AM 0.33 (0.28) 0.31 (0.23) 0.31 (0.22) .74


Noon-1:59 PM 0.43 (0.29) 0.41 (0.22) 0.36 (0.24) .20


2-3:59 PM 0.44 (0.26) 0.37 (0.19) 0.39 (0.25) .24


4-5:59 PM 0.47 (0.27) 0.45 (0.30) 0.48 (0.28) .67

aP values are from the main effects of time from repeated measures general linear models (log or identity link).

bN/A: not applicable.

cThe UV device malfunctioned for 1 person; thus, the participant’s data were removed.