Introduction: Unprotected sun exposure could cause tanning, burning, hyperpigmentation, skin aging, and even skin cancer.Regular sunscreen use is a safeguard and a primary preventive strategy against sunlight-related damages.This study aims to find out the prevalence of sunscreen use among medical undergraduate students of a medical college of Eastern Nepal.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among the current medical undergraduate students of 2 medical colleges in Nepal on sunscreen use from September 2020 to October 2020.Convenience sampling was done to reach the sample tokidoki x sanrio blind box size of 300.
Data collection was done after taking ethical approval from the Institutional Review Committee (IRC/1778/020).Data analysis was done by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 11.5 software.Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and proportion for binary data.Results: The prevalence of sunscreen users was found to be 227 (75.
67%) (70.81-80.52 at 95% Confidence Interval) among whom only 35 (15.41%) were regular users.Majority 144 dark as knight horse supplement (63.
43%) applied sunscreen only on the face, 72 (31.71%) considered reapplication, and 155 (68.2%) knew the Sun Protection Factor value of their sunscreen.Cosmetic sunscreen was considered by the majority of the users 151 (66.51%).
Greasy feeling 73 (100%) was the reason for avoiding sunscreen use amongst the non-users 73 (24.34%).Conclusions: The prevalence of sunscreen users among medical undergraduate students from our study was higher than other studies conducted in similar settings.