Wearing Of Hats Research Articles

Are Welsh primary schools Sunproofed? Results of a national survey Part 2: sun protection practices in primary schools in Wales

Abstract Background Skin cancer rates are on the rise globally. School sun safety programmes are recommended by the World Health Organisation to reduce the risk of future skin cancer at population level; however, these are encouraged but not mandated in Wales. Objectives To explore current sun protection practices and sun safety education in primary schools in Wales and whether these are linked to the existence of a formal sun safety policy. Methods An online survey to all 1241 Welsh primary schools asking about sun safety practices, education and formal policies. Results 471 (38.0%) schools responded with the profile of responding schools generally matching the profile of schools in Wales. A minority (22,4.7%) of responding schools reported they had sufficient shade for most activities. In the spring and summer terms almost two thirds of schools encourage hat wearing (304, 64.8%) and sunscreen (296, 63.2%). While nearly all schools reported that parents were encouraged to apply sunscreen to students before school (449, 95.7%), there was wide variation in other sunscreen application practices. Less than one third of schools (129, 29.0%) reported that they include sun protection education in the curriculum in every year group, with 11.7% (52) including this in certain years only. Schools with a formal policy were more likely to report more comprehensive sun protection practices including having sufficient shade [OR 1.51, 95% CI 1.04-2.19; p = 0.032], having spare hats for pupils to wear [OR 1.59, 95% CI 1.07-2.37; p = 0.023], providing guidance for staff [OR 5.87, 95% CI 3.05-11.28; p < 0.001], encouraging them to model sun safe behaviours [OR 1.82, 95% CI 1.18-2.80; p = 0.007] and teaching sun protection education as part of the curriculum in every year group [OR 2.56, 95% CI 1.76-3.71; p < 0.001]. With respect to sunscreen, the existence of a formal policy did not seem to affect a school’s practice. Conclusions While in most cases, the existence of a formal policy suggests more comprehensive sun protection practices and education in schools, sun protection measures and education need improvement across the primary school sector in Wales to reverse rising skin cancer rates.

Learning linguistic diversity: Listeners have race-based linguistic expectations, but only for phonological variation.

In three artificial language experiments, we explored the rate at which adults learned associations between linguistic variation and speaker characteristics. Within each of the experiments, we observed that listeners sociolinguistic learning occurred, regardless of whether the speaker characteristic is social (race and sex/gender) or nonsocial (hat wearing), or whether they heard a phonological or morphological variant. However, we found that listener's initial expectations of what social properties were predictive of linguistic variation differed, impacting overall performance. First, participants were much more likely to assume that a phonological variant was predicted by a social property than a nonsocial property (Experiment 1). Most interestingly, participants were more likely to privilege speaker race than sex/gender, but only in the case of a phonological variant (Experiments 2 and 3). The same effect was found in both White and Black participants, though White participants were more likely to correctly articulate which speaker characteristic explained the variation, suggesting that sociolinguistic learning hinges on real-world experiences with language and social diversity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

A multivariable analysis delineating hair color, hair dyeing, and hat wearing as predictors of level of cocaine and MDMA detection in human hair samples.

Research suggests that hair color, hair dyeing, and perspiration can bias hair test results regarding drug exposure, but research is needed to examine such associations in a multivariable manner. In this epidemiology study, adults were surveyed entering nightclubs and dance festivals in New York City, and 328 provided hair samples, which were analyzed using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to determine the level of detection of cocaine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). Reporting use was not an inclusion criterion for analysis. We used two-part multivariable models to delineate associations of hair color, past-year hair dyeing, and frequency of past-month hat wearing (which may increase perspiration) in relation to any vs. no detection of cocaine and MDMA as well as level of detection, controlling for hair length, self-reported past-year cocaine/ecstasy/MDMA use, and age, sex, and race/ethnicity. Those reporting having dyed their hair were at increased odds of having any level of cocaine detected (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 3.75, 95% CI confidence interval [CI]: 1.85-6.70), and compared to those with brown hair, those with blond(e) hair on average had lower levels of cocaine (ng/mg) detected (beta = -7.97, p = 0.025). Those reporting having dyed their hair were at increased odds of having any level of MDMA detected (aOR =3.05, 95% CI: 1.44-6.48), and compared to those who reported never wearing a hat, those who reported wearing a hat daily or almost daily on average had lower levels of MDMA (ng/mg) detected (beta = -6.61, p = 0.025). This study demonstrates the importance of using multivariable models to delineate predictors of drug detection.

Body adornment among the Krobo in Ghana: Hair, a crowning glory

Since ancient times, body adornment has been a tradition in many cultures around the world and people still deck themselves out for a number of reasons. In Ghana, the phenomenon is pervasive among community members in almost all sixteen regions, including the Krobo of the Eastern Region, thereby projecting body adornment as part of the country’s national culture. Despite the case that any part of the human body can be adorned, the adornment of the hair on the human head has not been in focus among the Krobo of Ghana. Employing a qualitative approach and engaging multiple instruments (a semi-structured interview guide, non-participant observation, and document study), the study explored the adornment of the hair among the Krobo. Anchored on symbolic interaction theory, the findings of the study revealed that adornment of hair among the Krobo permeates three main thrusts: varying dimensions of hair plaiting or braiding, the wearing of scarves, and finally, the wearing of hats. In addition, the study revealed that the need for cultural symbolism is the main driver for adorning hair among the Krobo. Ultimately, the study broadens the existing literature base of the indigenous Ghanaian hair culture with reference to the Krobo people, at a time when such rich traditional ideals are rapidly declining. This tends to promote and preserve indigenous Krobo hair identity for posterity.

“Becoming Head-gear Is of the Utmost Importance”: Gender Performance, Social Differentiation, and the Codes of Hat Etiquette in Dombey and Son

“Becoming Head-gear Is of the Utmost Importance”: Gender Performance, Social Differentiation, and the Codes of Hat Etiquette in Dombey and Son Chen Houliang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution “Profound Cogitation of Captain Cuttle,” by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), frontispiece to Dombey and Son, London, The Caxton Publishing Co., 1910. [End Page 138] In Everyday Etiquette: A Practical Manual of Social Usages (1905), Marion Harland and Virginia Van De Water spill much ink on hat etiquette. Although the heyday of hat wearing was waning to a close when the book was published, the authors still admonish their readers: “Becoming head-gear is of the utmost importance” (168). Indeed, hat wearing is so central to the nineteenth-century British schemas of identity performance and social differentiation that, as Michael Paterson notices, “[n]o man or woman during the whole of the nineteenth century would have dreamed of going out with their head deliberately uncovered if they could afford not to–indeed to be seen hatless in the street would be considered a sign of eccentricity if not downright madness” (190). For the Victorians, hat wearing was anything but a trifling matter, and one could never be too careful about hat etiquette. Knowing what type and style of hat one should wear, as well as where, when, and how it should be worn, constitute key points of Victorian propriety. If the significance of hat wearing in the Victorian era is difficult for us to appreciate today because we no longer deem hats an essential part of dress, Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son (1848–49) provides for us a window into Victorian people’s everyday practices of hat etiquette, and more importantly, their function in the Victorian codes of gender performance and social differentiation. References to hats and other headgear abound in the novel: from Captain Cuttle’s hard glazed hat to the Welsh wig worn by Sol Gills, Mr. Toodle’s oilskin cap, and Mrs. Skewton’s peach-colored velvet bonnet. Sometimes they are depicted in detail, sometimes only mentioned briefly, but always they are imbued with gender and class implications. As Clair Hughes argues, these “significant trifles” can be used as “a key to the ‘whole,’ [End Page 139] a way into the life of the past” (119). In her essay “‘It Is the Hat that Matters the Most’: Hats, Propriety and Fashion in British Fiction, 1890–1930” (2017), Charlotte Nicklas “examines the ways in which British novelists used references to women’s hats to explore issues of etiquette, character and social change” (90). While Nicklas’s work is inspiring, it does not cover fictions that predate 1890, among which Dombey and Son deserves special attention, not only because of the ubiquity of references to hats in the novel, but also because of the centrality of hat performance in Dickens’s representation of the gender and class schemas of Victorian society. In “Dickens’s Immaterial Culture of Hats and The Pickwick Papers” (2011), Mark M. Hennelly has made a comprehensive study of hats in Dickens’s novels, including Dombey and Son, particularly hat moments related to Florence and Captain Cuttle, but still there remain a lot of issues regarding hats in the novel untouched by Hennelly and deserving further exploration. While Hennelly provides an overview of “a ‘diffusion of hats [and] bonnets’ that perform proverbial, idiomatic and slang, class, gender, moral, psychological, and popular-culture roles” in the Dickensian world (77), I will focus on details in Dombey and Son that are related to hat etiquette, so as to explore how the Victorian cults of bourgeois masculinity, feminine respectability, as well as class identity are exposed by Dickens through his realistic, though sometimes melodramatic, dramatization of everyday practices of hat wearing. I argue that, while hat etiquette is generally performed to regulate gender and class division, and hence works to reinforce the Victorian cults of bourgeois masculinity and feminine respectability, it also creates emotional and cross-class links between people. Particularly, I commend Mr. Toots, whose performance of bourgeois hat etiquette, though outwardly clumsy, actually indicates more democratic codes of dress. Captain Cuttle’s Glazed Hat and the Victorian Ideal of Bourgeois Masculinity The Victorian era...

The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of Eighteenth-Century Britain

Burden of the Beast

Burden of the Beast

The PUSSYHAT PROJECTTM: Its form and meaning in defining women’s resistance

An item of headwear, the pussy hat, made news in 2017 when women gathered through social media and local events to create the iconic hat. The hat became a part of the Women’s March that took place in January in Washington DC as well as in cities such as St. Paul, Minnesota. This research involves participant observation of the hat-making process and the hat wearing during marches in Washington DC and Minnesota. Findings revealed the effectiveness of the pussy hat in calling attention to the events that took place prior to and during the marches in January 2017. However, examination of the pussy hat included many variations in form, i.e. colour, texture and shape and the meaning represented some but not all voices of the march.

조선후기 전건(戰巾)의 착용과 제작

Court paintings of military soldiers wearing black conical hats with the top folded and draping back from the late Joseon period are quite common. This type of hat has been known as Jeongeon, and was worn by soldiers, but no additional details have been revealed. Recently, however, as similar artifacts among the Korean collections of overseas museums have been discovered and surveyed, there emerges a need to find the proper term for them. Old documents, paintings, museum collections with regard to Jeongeon were thus compared and analyzed in this research. The purpose of this study is to broaden and deepen the understanding of military uniforms by revealing who wore them, how they were worn, as well as the materials and manufacturing methods used to make them. Jeongeon was a hat worn by soldiers, together with Hyeopsu, Gwaeja or Hoeui, and navy Jeondae in the late Joseon dynasty. Originally, it was exclusively produced for and worn by members of the Hullyeondogam. But it gradually came to be worn by soldiers of many other units. Soldiers with Jeongeon are primarily seen in paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. The method of making Jeongeon was researched through examining historical records and museum collections. First, paper was attached to black fabric, then folded vertically so that the left and right sides overlapped in three layers. The center lines of the back were brought together, and then the upper side was sewn horizontally. The hat was decorated with red rectangles and gold curve lines, and the back was decorated with five gold vertical lines. The structure and characteristics of the artifacts in overseas museum collections are mostly consistent with literature and painting records. This research will contribute to the reproduction of Jeongeon and reenactment events in the future.

Protect your skin and let the fun begin: The results of an intervention to improve NSW primary schools' implementation of the SunSmart Program.

The SunSmart Policy Support and Intervention Study (SSPSIS) (ACTRN12614000926639) investigated the feasibility of improving schools' implementation of the SunSmart Program, which is a resource for primary school communities to support their development of a comprehensive sun protection policy. A cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) was used to evaluate the SSPSIS, which was conducted in NSW SunSmart schools (n=20). Objective measurements of students' sun-safe hat-wearing behaviours and sunscreen application, and teachers' role-modelling behaviours, were collected for baseline, post-test and follow-up data. Interviews with school community stakeholders, including students (n=103), parents (n=31), teachers (n=11) and executive staff (n=4), were conducted to inform the intervention design, which was implemented following baseline data collection. The results of baseline observations and interviews have been published previously. The intervention design aimed to combat negative perceptions of hat-wearing policy and create a trigger for sunscreen application by rewarding students practising these sun protection behaviours with play-based incentives. Although this intervention had no significant effect on the wearing of sun-safe hats among students or teachers, it did have a large effect on the consumption of sunscreen. Associating sunscreen and play-based incentives can create an effective trigger for students' sunscreen application behaviours. However, further evidence is needed to investigate how students' and teacher role models' hat-wearing behaviours could be increased. SO WHAT?: While combining a play-based incentive with a trigger for behaviour can promptly increase students' sunscreen application, it was unable to increase students' or teacher role models' hat-wearing behaviours.

Studying third-parties and environments: New Zealand sun-safety research.

Wearable cameras have been used to study health behaviours, but their utility in assessing third-party behaviours and the built environment is uncertain. This paper reports on the feasibility of using wearable cameras for this purpose in a study of sun-protective behaviours and shade availability during school lunch-breaks. The Kids'Cam study provided 168 children (aged 11-13 years), recruited from 16 randomly selected schools in the Wellington region of New Zealand, with wearable cameras. The devices automatically captured images every 7 s from the child's perspective. Images captured during school lunch-breaks by a random sample of 15 children who took part during terms 4 and 1 (October 2014-April 2015) were selected and assessed for usability. The feasibility of studying third-party sun-protective behaviours and school shade availability was assessed for a subset of 320 images. Of the 3492 eligible lunch-break images, 96.4% were useable; the remainders were excluded due to obstruction, blurriness or unsuitable camera position. Overall, 1278 children and 108 shade structures were observed in the sample images. The use of shade, hats, sleeves, collars and sunglasses could be determined for 97.0%, 77.2%, 74.4%, 47.6% and 54.9% of children, respectively. All shade structures could be classified according to type, and canopy composition could be assessed for 95.4% of structures. Wearable cameras are a feasible tool for assessing sun-safety, particularly shade availability, hat wearing and shade use. This methodology could be used to objectively study other third-party health-related behaviours, and other features of the built environment.

The Three Colour Hat Guessing Game on Cycle Graphs

We study a cooperative game in which each member of a team of N players, wearing coloured hats and situated at the vertices of the cycle graph with N vertices, is guessing their own hat colour merely on the basis of observing the hats worn by their two neighbours without exchanging the information. Each hat can have one of three colours. A predetermined guessing strategy is winning if it guarantees at least one correct individual guess for every assignment of colours. We prove that a winning strategy exists if and only if N is divisible by 3 or N = 4. This asymmetric game is an example of relational system using incomplete information about an unpredictable situation, where at least one participant has to act properly.

An objective and cross-sectional examination of sun-safe behaviours in New South Wales primary schools

BackgroundPrevious evaluations have supported the link between sun protection policies and improved sun protection behaviours. However these evaluations have relied on self-reported data.MethodsA cross-sectional design as part of an ongoing 18-month cluster-controlled trial in primary schools (n = 20) was used. Researchers conducted direct observations to record students’ hat use and teachers’ use of sun protective measures during recess and lunch. Researchers also recorded the volume of sunscreen consumed in each school.ResultsOnly 60% of primary school children wear a sun-safe hat during their breaks when observed using objective measures. Weak correlations were observed between the wearing of a sun-safe hat and a school’s socio-economic status (r = 0.26). All other independent variables measured had only very weak correlations (r < 0.19) with sun-safe hat wearing behaviour of students. Sunscreen consumption by school students during the school day is negligible.ConclusionsA large percentage of NSW primary schools in this study wear sun-safe hats during the school day but this is well below what has been reported in previous national surveys. Given the finite resources of schools and the correlation, though small, with SES status for these behaviours, it behoves researchers to investigate low-cost solutions to these problems. Further qualitative data will also be needed to inform the enablers and barriers for sun-safe behaviour interventions to be adopted in NSW primary schools.

ANALYSIS OF FARM SAFETY-RISKS AND HAZARDS COMMON AMONG SMALL-SCALE COCOA-FARMERS IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA

The study was conducted in Abia State, Nigeria. A sample size of 240 respondents generated through purposive and multi–stage sampling procedures. Data were realized using structured questionnaire and they were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s correlation co-efficient. About 62.5 %, 37.5 % and 64.4 % of the respondents were males, females and literates respectively. Means of 46.5 years, 8.5 persons and ₦31,458.00 respectively were recorded for age, household size, and monthly income respectively. Stepping on sharp objects (X = 3.08), cuts/ wounds from implements / tools (X = 3.38), insects bit/ stings (X = 3.25), sun – burns (X = 3.58), and poisoning from chemicals (X = 3.58) respectively were identified as the common farm- safety- risks and hazards in the study area. Avoidance of fatigue(X = 3.38), wearing of hats/ caps (X = 2.58), always armed with machetes (X = 3.2), protective clothing (X = 2.92), rain / jungle boots (X = 2.92), and experts handling chemical application(X = 2.58), among others were identified as preventive measures employed by the cocoa farmers. Results equally, revealed that the following agro – chemicals: mirex (X = 2.63), primegram (X = 3.50), galex (X = 3.58), glamozone (X = 3.63), karate (X = 3.00), furandan (X = 3.50), primextra (X = 3.38) and copper sulfate (X = 3.25), among others were still in use by cocoa farmers in the study area. About 79.9 % of the respondents indicated that the following operations in cocoa production in the study area still involved the use of child – labor: harvesting, weeding, transportation, planting, harvesting and fertilizer application respectively. The study therefore, recommends that government agencies and stake holders charged with monitoring and enforcement of banned chemicals in Nigeria, mostly in the study area should step-up activities mostly now that the protection of environment is a very topical issue in the world. Article visualizations:

Putting a lid on it [First World War equipment design

An iconic symbol of war, the Brodie was the first combat helmet to be specifically designed and engineered for Western Front battlefield conditions - and its legacy extends to the composite material military hard hats worn by today's fighting forces.

G317(P) Use of Clinical Audit to Improve Neonatal Thermoregulation at a University Hospital in Ethiopia

AimsTo use the audit cycle to assess and improve the standard of neonatal thermoregulatory care.To demonstrate the usefulness of clinical audit in a resource-limited setting.MethodsA prospective audit was undertaken on...

School sun-protection policies--does being SunSmart make a difference?

Evaluate the comprehensiveness of primary school sun-protection policies in tropical North Queensland, Australia. Pre-determined criteria were used to assess publicly available sun-protection policies from primary schools in Townsville (latitude 19.3°S; n = 43), Cairns (16.9°S; n = 46) and the Atherton Tablelands (17.3°S; n = 23) during 2009-2012. Total scores determined policy comprehensiveness. The relationship between policy score, SunSmart status and demographic characteristics was explored. At least 96.6% of primary schools sampled had a sun-protection policy. Although policies of Cancer Council accredited 'SunSmart' schools addressed more environmental, curriculum and review-related criteria than those of 'non-SunSmart' schools, the overall median score for both groups was low at 2 from a possible 12 (48.5% of SunSmart schools [SSSs]: inter-quartile range [IQR = 2.0-9.0] versus 65.9% of non-SSSs: [IQR = 2.0-3.0], P = 0.008). Most policies addressed hat wearing, while criteria related to shade provision at outdoor events, regular policy review and using the policy to plan outdoor events were poorly addressed. Although most primary schools in skin cancer-prone North Queensland have written sun-protection policies, the comprehensiveness of these policies could be vastly improved. These schools may require further support and advice to improve the comprehensive of their policies and incentives to continually implement them to achieve and maintain exemplary sun-protection compliance.

Hat Honour, Self-Identity and Commitment in Early Quakerism

Hat Honour, Self-Identity and Commitment in Early Quakerism Susan Wareham Watkins (bio) “[T]he … artificial, feigned, and strained art of compliment, consisting in bundles of fopperies, fond ceremonies, foolish windings, … and cringings with their bodies, uncovering their heads, [and] using multitudes of frothy … words…,”1 permeated all levels of English society in mid-seventeenth century England. Today we might view such foppish etiquette as quaint or old fashioned. But to the early Quakers the code of hat honour was seen as far more than mere etiquette. Hat honour went against the word of God as expressed in scripture, and impinged on religious and social freedoms, reinforced status and subordination in a sharply differentiated hierarchical society, and struck against foundational Quaker testimonies to the Light Within, truth, equality and personal simplicity. Opposing hat honour was “The first and most pressing motive upon our spirits,” wrote the Quaker leader William Penn in 1682, a “hidden treasure,”2 while Joseph Besse, who catalogued the “sufferings” of seventeenth century Quakers 50 years later,3 also noted the “great Weight and Consequence” the “Principal Point” hat honour meant to this first generation of converts.4 Over the years Puritan writers had targeted the “sinne of excess in Apparell,”5 and many people relinquished the prideful pursuit of fashion, instead seeking deeper inner values. George Fox, who is generally considered to be the founding organizer of the Society of Friends, and other Quaker leaders, and many who adopted the Quaker message, were deeply influenced by Puritanism.6 Like others who preceded them, new members to Quakerism sought to wean themselves from “the Things that are below” and move to a simpler more spiritual life, setting their goal on “Things that are above.”7 But more importantly for the Quakers, their witness against hat honour was part of the Lamb’s War—their fight against the forces of Satan and the false teachings of the world so as to prepare themselves and the world for the return of Christ.8 Their principled resistance to worldly honorifics was widespread in spite of their understanding of the social and political implications refusing to bear hat honour would entail, and many Quaker men were imprisoned, fined, or beaten, several dying from their injuries. Years of political, religious and social disorder after the turmoil of civil war heightened sensitivities surrounding law and order issues, and Quaker refusal of honorifics seemed to threaten the social order and undermine the basis of control. Adopting the “plain” attitude to hat honour and its associated etiquette, not just to clothing and language, soon became associated with Quakerism, and as the early converts strove to internalize the Quaker message this testimony helped [End Page 1] forge their identity as members of this new faith. However, writing of his personal Quaker convincement as a young man, Thomas Ellwood testified that this was not easy for them to do. By 1660 public testimony against the vanity of hat honour was a visible indicator of “membership” in the fast growing movement. Although viewed by the wider community as a contemptuous discourtesy and a threat to the stability of their localities, for the new Quaker convert opposition to the code of hat honour explicitly declared his faith to the world and was an integral part of his spiritual journey to self-identity and commitment. Because of the current minimal etiquette surrounding hat wearing, understanding the vitality and urgency associated with Quaker opposition to hat honour in mid-seventeenth century England has been lost in the mists of time with only occasional brief references appearing in modern literature. This review of the Quaker testimony against hat honour and the entrenched protocol of the period, seeks to give a deeper understanding of its major role in nascent Quakerism. Hats, History and Hat Honour A large hat-making industry supplied the annual demand for three million hats in a populace of just over five million.9 Hats, often made of expensive materials,10 were worn by most men in this period, with the style and visibility of the hat identifying the wearer’s status. Far more than a head covering for warmth or as a fashion statement, hats were an integral part...

El tricornio de la Guardia Civil como símbolo literario en los relatos de viajeros de habla inglesa del siglo XX

This presence in English literary texts of the hat worn by the Spanish Guardia Civil, known in Spanish as the ‘tricornio’, had its beginnings in the form of mere descriptions. It began as an item of clothing that was difficult to ‘apprehend’ (a ‘three-cornered hat’ or a ‘cocked hat’), but these visual perceptions gradually started to take on subtle shades of meaning and a significance which varied with the historical circumstances and the individual travellers, especially during the 20th century. Its descriptions were complemented in time with varying adjectives, personal impressions and more or less bizarre interpretations as to its origin and purpose, namely: its usefulness in allowing the civil guards to lean against the wall and therefore catch criminals more easily; its poor role as protector against the rain but its success as a protector of the civil guard’s ears; its connection with the Peninsular War, Napoleon or Goya, or to the French Gendarmerie; its archaism; its similarity to the hats of funfair puppets and comic operas, etc. Indeed, the constant presence of the ‘cocked hat’ in the Spanish literary landscape in the eyes of Anglophone travellers is of the utmost relevance when endeavouring to understand contemporary Spain.

Seven‐year trends in sun protection and sunburn among Australian adolescents and adults

To examine the change in sun protective behaviours and sunburn of Australians over a seven-year period, in the context of sustained skin cancer prevention campaigns and programs. Weekly cross-sectional telephone interviews of Australians were conducted throughout summer in 2010/11 for comparison with 2003/04 and 2006/07. In 2010/11, n=1,367 adolescents (12-17 years) and n=5,412 adults (18-69 years) were interviewed about their sun-related attitudes, weekend sun protection and sunburn. Multivariate analyses adjusted for key demographics, temperature, cloud, wind and ultraviolet radiation (UVR) to assess change in outcomes over time. There were consistent improvements in adolescents' and adults' attitudes, intentional tanning and incidence of sunburn over time. Behavioural changes were variable. Adults spent less time outdoors during peak UVR compared to past surveys, while adolescents were less likely to be outdoors compared with 2006/07. Sunscreen use and wearing of long sleeves increased among adults, but hat wearing decreased for both age groups, as did leg cover by adolescents since 2003/04. There has been a sustained decrease in weekend sunburn among adolescents and adults. The findings suggest improvements in skin cancer prevention attitudes of Australians over time. Australians' compliance with sun protection during summer has improved in some areas, but is still far from ideal. The sustained decrease in weekend sunburn among adolescents and adults is encouraging, but further improvements are required.