Despite declines in the prevalence of indoor tanning from 2009 to 2015 among US high school students nationwide, indoor tanning remains commonplace among certain subgroups, especially non-Hispanic white female students, a recent study found. Researchers pooled and examined cross-sectional data from the 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey. During 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015, unweighted sample sizes were 16,410, 15,425, 13,538, and 15,624, respectively. They found:

• The prevalence of indoor tanning decreased from 15.6% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2015.
• Decreases in indoor tanning were found among male (from 6.7% in 2009 to 4.0% in 2015) and female (from 25.4 % in 2009 to 10.6 % in 2015) students overall, non-Hispanic white (from 21.1 % in 2009 to 9.4% in 2015) and Hispanic (from 8.2% in 2009 to 4.7% in 2015) students overall, and all age groups.