title: Sun protection as a family health project in families with adolescents.
abstract: This study examined sun protection in families with adolescents from an action-theoretical perspective. Interview data were collected from 20 families about their attitudes and behaviors around sunbathing and sun protection. The data support the understanding of project as joint goal-directed action over time as the basis on which these behaviors are organized in families. Families used the language of goal-directed action to discuss family sun protection. Differences between families with focused and diffuse sun-protection projects are identified. Sun protection in families as one part of an array of family goal-directed actions and projects has implications for health promotion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. richard.young@ubc.ca
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Logan
authors.forename: Chris Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Lovato
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moffat
authors.forename: Jean A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Shoveller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012880:Skin Pigmentation; D013471:Sunburn / Q000517:prevention & control*