How do you counsel patients with AKs such that they are motivated to improve or optimize sun protection behaviors?

Some thoughts and approaches that may help:

• It is very challenging (possibly close to impossible!) to induce behavior change in anyone, much less someone not motivated to change, so recognize your role as being a teacher/provider of information and do not assume a sense of personal responsibility f...

In addition to what Dr. @Dr. First Last wrote, there are patients who won't use a sunscreen, but who will take vitamins. Suggest Nicotinamide 500 mg bid to decrease the incidence of actinic keratoses and non-melanoma skin cancers.

Diana D. Parnell, MD