Sun protective behaviors and exposure habits in diverse Hispanic nationalities: Data from the National Health Interview Survey 2005 to 2015

Nicole Trepanowski; Richard Chen; Daniel Y Kim; Zelma C Chiesa Fuxench; Linglin Huang; Josiemer Mattei; Areebah Ahmad; Rebecca I Hartman

doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2023.01.007

Sun protective behaviors and exposure habits in diverse Hispanic nationalities: Data from the National Health Interview Survey 2005 to 2015

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2023 May;88(5):1206-1209. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.01.007. Epub 2023 Jan 31.

Authors

Nicole Trepanowski¹, Richard Chen², Daniel Y Kim³, Zelma C Chiesa Fuxench⁴, Linglin Huang⁵, Josiemer Mattei⁶, Areebah Ahmad⁷, Rebecca I Hartman⁸

Affiliations

¹ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, VA Integrated Service Network (VISN-1), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Electronic address: rhartman@bwh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 36732107
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.01.007

No abstract available

Keywords: Central America; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Hispanic; Latino; Latinx; Mexico; NHIS; National Health Interview Survey; Puerto Rico; South America; UV; acculturation; behavior; burn; culture; indoor tan; melanoma; photoprotection; prevention; public health; shade; skin cancer; skin of color; sun protection; sunburn; sunscreen; tan; ultraviolet.

MeSH terms

Ethnicity
Habits
Health Behavior
Health Surveys
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Protective Clothing
Skin Neoplasms* / drug therapy
Skin Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Skin Neoplasms* / prevention & control
Sunburn* / epidemiology
Sunburn* / prevention & control
Sunscreening Agents / therapeutic use

Substances

Sunscreening Agents