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

August 10, 2018 updated by: Ida M. Heerfordt, Bispebjerg Hospital
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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

31

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Denmark
    • DK
      • Copenhagen NV, DK, Denmark, 2400
        • Bispebjerg Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

- European descent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Skin disease
  • allergy to the content in sunscreen
  • Pregnancy
  • Breastfeeding

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

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

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Bispebjerg Hospital

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

May 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 29, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

July 29, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 7, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 10, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

August 13, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 13, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 10, 2018

Last Verified

August 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Handful of sunscreen

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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