Overview
Project status: In progress
There is a paucity of research to enhance our understanding of the motivations underlying people's decisions to sun protect. This research will examine people's sun-protective attitudes, norms, and control perceptions, with a focus on social influences (media images and referent group norms) on intentions and behaviour.
This project, supported by the Australian Research Council and the Cancer Council Queensland aims to develop strategies that will increase Australians' sun protection in the nation with the world's highest rate of skin cancer. The first study will identify people's beliefs about sun safe decisions to inform a predictive model of their sun safe intentions and actions. Interventions will then be designed and evaluated for students in class and for adults online.
- Grantor
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Australian Research Council
- Amount
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$230,000 (approx) linkage grant
- Research team
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QUT
External collaborators
Associate Professor Anna Hawkes (Cancer Council Queensland)
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Faculty of Health Other units
- Research area
- Environmental Health
Professor Katherine White
Professor Ross Young
