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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Parents knowledge and behaviour concerning sunning their babies; a cross-sectional, descriptive study † † † Nihal Aladag , Tuncay M Filiz , Pinar Topsever* and Suleyman Gorpelioglu Address: Department of Family Medicine, Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli, 41000 Turkey Email: Nihal Aladag - nihal_aladag@; Tuncay M Filiz - dalim_99@; Pinar Topsever* - topsever@; Suleyman Gorpelioglu - sgorpelioglu@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 31 October 2006 Received: 16 March 2006 Accepted: 31 October 2006 BMC Pediatrics 2006, 6:27 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-6-27 This article is available from: /1471-2431/6/27 © 2006 Aladag et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: For centuries, sunlight has been used for therapeutic purposes. Parents still sun their infants to treat neonatal jaundice, nappy rash or mostly to supply vitamin D for bone development as a consequence of health beliefs. In this study we aimed to assess knowledge and behaviour of parents about benefits of sunlight and sun protection. Methods: In this study, parents attendi