How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

Quantity of Sunscreen Clinical Trial

Official title:

How Useful is the Advice: "Fill up a Handful of Sunscreen and Spread it All Over Your Body"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03627260
• Other study ID #: Handful of sunscreen
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 29, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2018
• Source: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The advice: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body" is used in several sun safety campaigns. The hope is that users in swimwear following the advice will apply a sunscreen quantity of 2 mg/cm^2 to all accessible skin. The present study is the first to investigate how this advice works in practice.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 31
• Est. completion date: July 29, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 29, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• European descent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Skin disease

• allergy to the content in sunscreen

• Pregnancy

• Breastfeeding

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Quantity of Sunscreen
• Sun Protection Factor
• Sun Safety Campaigns
• Sunscreen Use

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body. Sunscreen, Actinica
Volunteers were asked to follow the rule of thumb: "Fill up a handful of sunscreen and spread it all over your body".

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Bispebjerg Hospital	Copenhagen NV	DK

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bispebjerg Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The overall quantities of sunscreen applied were calculated from the weighed amount of sunscreen used divided by the skin area accessible for sunscreen application.		Outcome measure will be assessed within half an hour after sunscreen application. There will be no further follow up.