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Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media

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“Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media”

A sample of mothers in Tennessee are recruited to a group-randomized pretest-posttest controlled trial evaluating the effect of a social media campaign to decrease mothers' permissiveness for daughters to indoor tan. The primary outcomes is mothers' permissiveness for indoor tanning by daughters. Secondary outcomes are mother's indoor tanning prevalence and their support for stricter bans on indoor tanning by minors.

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No pharmaceutical medication involved common.study.methods.has-drugs-no
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Behavioral - Health Chat including Indoor Tanning

Participants in the intervention join a private Facebook group to participate in the Health Chat program. The group is not viewable to the public, including other Facebook users. The content of Health Chat is designed primarily for mothers, the participants in the group. Posts will occur twice daily for 12 months for a total of 720 posts. Each group will be hosted by a moderator who is responsible for managing the intervention goals and mothers' engagement. Mothers likely will not continuously e ...read more on ClinicalTrials.org

Behavioral - Health Chat excluding Indoor Tanning

In the comparison condition, 25% of the posts will be about prescription drug abuse and misuse. Prescription drug abuse was selected as control content because it is a) completely unrelated to tanning, and b) an emerging issue of great interest and relevance to young adults in east Tennessee. This 25% segment of posts is the only difference between the intervention and comparison conditions.

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Likes Pins and Views: Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Thru Social Media

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NCT02835807

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