Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret
Objective: To examine the role of parental beliefs, roles, and anticipated regret toward performing childhood sun-protective behaviours. Methods: Parents (N = 230; 174 mothers, 56 fathers), recruited using a nonrandom convenience sample, of at least 1 child aged between 2 and 5 years completed an in...
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| description | Objective: To examine the role of parental beliefs, roles, and anticipated regret toward performing childhood sun-protective behaviours. Methods: Parents (N = 230; 174 mothers, 56 fathers), recruited using a nonrandom convenience sample, of at least 1 child aged between 2 and 5 years completed an initial questionnaire assessing demographics and past behaviour as well as theory of planned behaviour global (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control) and belief-based (behavioural, normative, and control beliefs) measures, role construction, and anticipated regret regarding their intention and behaviour to protect their child from the sun. Two weeks later, participants completed a follow-up questionnaire assessing their sun protection of their child during the previous 2 weeks. Results: Hierarchical multiple regression analysis identified attitude, perceived behavioural control, role construction, anticipated regret, past behaviour, and a normative belief (“current partner/other family members”) as significant predictors of parents' intention to participate in sun-protective behaviour for their child. Intention and past behaviour were significant predictors of parents' follow-up sun-protective behaviour. The regression models explained 64% and 36% of the variance in intention and behaviour, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study highlight the importance of anticipated regret and role-related beliefs alongside personal, normative, and control beliefs in determining parents' intentional sun-protective behaviour for their children. Findings may inform the development of parent- and community-based sun protection intervention programs to promote parents' sun-safety behaviours for their children to prevent future skin cancer incidence. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-519512018-05-02T01:36:56Z Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret Hamilton, Kyra Kirkpatrick, A. Rebar, A. White, K. Hagger, Martin Objective: To examine the role of parental beliefs, roles, and anticipated regret toward performing childhood sun-protective behaviours. Methods: Parents (N = 230; 174 mothers, 56 fathers), recruited using a nonrandom convenience sample, of at least 1 child aged between 2 and 5 years completed an initial questionnaire assessing demographics and past behaviour as well as theory of planned behaviour global (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control) and belief-based (behavioural, normative, and control beliefs) measures, role construction, and anticipated regret regarding their intention and behaviour to protect their child from the sun. Two weeks later, participants completed a follow-up questionnaire assessing their sun protection of their child during the previous 2 weeks. Results: Hierarchical multiple regression analysis identified attitude, perceived behavioural control, role construction, anticipated regret, past behaviour, and a normative belief (“current partner/other family members”) as significant predictors of parents' intention to participate in sun-protective behaviour for their child. Intention and past behaviour were significant predictors of parents' follow-up sun-protective behaviour. The regression models explained 64% and 36% of the variance in intention and behaviour, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study highlight the importance of anticipated regret and role-related beliefs alongside personal, normative, and control beliefs in determining parents' intentional sun-protective behaviour for their children. Findings may inform the development of parent- and community-based sun protection intervention programs to promote parents' sun-safety behaviours for their children to prevent future skin cancer incidence. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51951 10.1002/pon.4434 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hamilton, Kyra Kirkpatrick, A. Rebar, A. White, K. Hagger, Martin Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title | Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title_full | Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title_fullStr | Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title_full_unstemmed | Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title_short | Protecting Young Children Against Skin Cancer: Parental Beliefs, Roles, And Regret |
| title_sort | protecting young children against skin cancer: parental beliefs, roles, and regret |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51951 |