Sun-protection knowledge and strategies of Chinese dermatologists: a nation-wide, questionnaire-based survey

摘要

Dear Editor:Sun exposure produces a variety of adverse cutaneous conditions,including sunburn-like erythema,photosensitivity,and phototoxicity.Long-term events include photoaging and carcinogenesis.Developed countries,e.g.Britain and United States,have developed sunprotection education in the 1980s with remarkable results[1-2].We found several researches investigating the sun-protection knowledge and strategies in China such as Beijing[3].However,knowledge investigation of sun protection in Chinese dermatologists is lack,while dermatologists play a significant role to provide professional suggestions for the public towards protection from sun exposure.Herein we conducted this nation-wide,questionnaire-based survey to investigate the sun protection knowledge in Chinese derma-tologists.