Health-related quality of life worsens by school age amongst children with food allergy.
Children
Food allergy
Food hypersensitivity
Health-related quality of life
Journal
Clinical and translational allergy
ISSN: 2045-7022
Titre abrégé: Clin Transl Allergy
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101576043
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
27
11
2018
accepted:
04
01
2019
entrez:
19
2
2019
pubmed:
19
2
2019
medline:
19
2
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Food allergy is negatively associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL). Although differences exist between parents and children, less is known about age-specific differences amongst children. As such, we aimed to identify if age, as well as other factors, are associated with food allergy-specific HRQL in an objectively defined population of children. Overall, 63 children (boys: n = 36; 57.1%) with specialist-diagnosed food allergy to 1 + foods were included. Parents/guardians completed the Swedish version of a disease-specific questionnaire designed to assess overall- and domain-specific HRQL. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used. The most common food allergy was hen's egg (n = 40/63; 63.5%). Most children had more than one food allergy (n = 48; 76.2%). Nearly all had experienced mild symptoms (e.g. skin; n = 56/63; 94.9%), and more than half had severe symptoms (e.g. respiratory; 39/63; 66.1%). Compared to young children (0-5 years), older children (6-12 years) had worse HRQL (e.g. overall HRQL: B = 0.60; 95% CI 0.05-1.16; Older children and those with severe food allergy have worse HRQL.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Food allergy is negatively associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL). Although differences exist between parents and children, less is known about age-specific differences amongst children. As such, we aimed to identify if age, as well as other factors, are associated with food allergy-specific HRQL in an objectively defined population of children.
METHODS
METHODS
Overall, 63 children (boys: n = 36; 57.1%) with specialist-diagnosed food allergy to 1 + foods were included. Parents/guardians completed the Swedish version of a disease-specific questionnaire designed to assess overall- and domain-specific HRQL. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The most common food allergy was hen's egg (n = 40/63; 63.5%). Most children had more than one food allergy (n = 48; 76.2%). Nearly all had experienced mild symptoms (e.g. skin; n = 56/63; 94.9%), and more than half had severe symptoms (e.g. respiratory; 39/63; 66.1%). Compared to young children (0-5 years), older children (6-12 years) had worse HRQL (e.g. overall HRQL: B = 0.60; 95% CI 0.05-1.16;
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
Older children and those with severe food allergy have worse HRQL.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30774928
doi: 10.1186/s13601-019-0244-0
pii: 244
pmc: PMC6366088
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
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