Hats on Head Start: A A Survey of Sun Protection Behaviors in Head Start and Other Early Childhood Education Programs

Sunburn Clinical Trial

Official title:

Hats on Head Start: A Survey of Sun Protection Behaviors in Head Start and Other Early Childhood Education Programs

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03199573
• Other study ID #: STU00205541
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 23, 2017
• Last updated: August 17, 2017
• Start date: July 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 28, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Northwestern University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The proposed study will assess the current sun safety policies and practices in programs for young children and to determine the willingness of stakeholders to incorporate more protective measures.

The primary hypothesis is that children in Head Start programs, daycare programs, elementary schools, or summer camps are exposed to significant UV radiation throughout the day, and are not adequately protected with sunscreen, hats, or sun-protective clothing. The secondary hypothesis is that these programs value sun safety as an important health behavior, but probably do not have the funding avilable to make it a priority.

Description:

The study aims are:

1. To assess current exposure to sun and UV in programs of children participating in an early childhood educational program.

2. To assess current policies regarding sun protection and sunscreen use in programs for early childhood education.

3. To assess the current attitudes towards sun safety among caregivers and teachers in programs for early childhood education.

4. To explore association of sun protective behaviors with risk factors such as socioeconomic status, per student classroom budget, program setting (i.e. urban, suburban, or rural), race/ethnicity, size of school program, school budget for supplies, and ages of children enrolled in program.

The sample of stakeholders, who will be surveyed, is consistent with samples used in our prior research. A sample size of 250 phone interviews will be adequate to show trends in sun safety policies among early education programs. Power analysis is based on the use of sun protection, our primary outcome. Our preliminary data show that 15% of schools almost always or always schedule outdoor activities to avoid times when the sun was at peak intensity. The sample size required to sensitively detect a 20% difference in using sun protection between those that comply with recommendations and those that do not is 250 respondents assuming an alpha < 0.05 and power >= 0.8 in a two-tailed test on a two-group sample. This sample size will adequately power the study for detecting 30% difference in sun protection use between the two groups.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 202
• Est. completion date: July 28, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 28, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Someone 18 years of age and older, who is a teacher, administrator, aide, or other staff member of a Head Start program, day care program, camp, or elementary school.

• Participants agree to a structured phone interview regarding their program's policies for sun safety, their opinions on certain health behaviors, and the demographics of their student population.

• Participants will be interviewed on the phone and guided through a questionnaire which should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who do not know their program's procedures for sun protection will not be able to participate, but may transfer the phone call to another colleague who can answer the questions accurately. Participants without the ability to speak in English will be excluded from the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sunburn

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Northwestern Memorial Hospital	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Northwestern University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Demographics	Demographics of programs contacted e.g. racial breakdown, socioeconomic status of families served, ages of children in program, setting.	10 minutes
Primary	Total daily sun exposure and sunburn of children	Total sun exposure per day and number of sunburns sustained at Head Start program, daycare, camp, or school	10 minutes
Secondary	Sun safety policies	presence of policies in place to protect children from UV exposure e.g. designated time to don sun protective clothing, encouraging parents to apply sunscreen before school, send children with sun hats.	10 minutes