NDLI: Frequent Tanning Bed Use, Weight Concerns, and Other Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescent Females (United States)

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	O’Riordan, David L. Field, Alison E. Geller, Alan C. Brooks, Daniel R. Aweh, Gideon Colditz, Graham A. Frazier, A. Lindsay
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	To examine the association between tanning bed use and weight concerns, health risk behaviors, and peer influence.The Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) is an ongoing prospective cohort study of adolescents established in 1996. In 1999, a total of 6,373 adolescent females ages 12–18 (offspring of participants in the Nurses Health Study 2) completed the survey.Almost nine percent (8.6%) of the adolescent girls had used a tanning bed 1–9 times and an additional 5.4% had used tanning beds at least 10 times in the past year (frequent users). Logistic regression models revealed that frequent tanning bed use was associated with being highly concerned about weight (OR = 1.5, 95%CI = 1.1, 2.0), frequently dieting to lose weight (OR = 1.5, 95%CI = 1.1, 2.0), using laxatives or vomiting to control weight (OR = 3.6; 95%CI = 2.2–5.8), having friends who placed a lot of importance on being thin (OR = 2.6; 95%CI = 1.3–5.1), smoking cigarettes (OR=1.7, 95%CI = 1.1, 2.6), binge drinking (OR = 2.1, 95%CI = 1.3, 3.1), using recreational drugs (OR = 3.0; 95%CI = 2.4, 3.8), and trying to look like females in the media (sometimes/pretty much: OR = 1.3, 95%CI = 1.0, 1.8).Frequent tanning bed use among adolescent females is associated with a range of health risk behaviors. This effect may be mediated by peer influence and a desire to look like other females in the media. Multi-pronged approaches, particularly those that target attitudes of young females, are needed to combat increased use of tanning beds.
Starting Page	679
Ending Page	686
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09575243
Journal	Cancer Causes & Control
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15737225
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Adolescent females Tanning beds Health-risk behaviors Weight concerns and influences Cancer Research Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Hematology Oncology Epidemiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cancer Research Oncology

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