Quality of life in children with food allergy in Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital.
Keywords:
food allergy, quality of life, pediatric patients, familyAbstract
Background: Food allergy is growing a global health concern and makes a significant burden on allergic children and their family with impacts on physical and emotional effects.
Objective: To investigate the effect of food allergy on quality of life (QoL) in food allergic children and identify risk factors associated with worse QoL in food allergic children in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on food allergic children aged 0-12 years attended the Pediatric allergy outpatient clinic of Chiangrai Prachanukroh hospital who met the inclusion criteria. They were interviewed with The Food Allergy Quality of Life Questionnaire -Parent Form (FAQLF-PF) Thai version which divided into 3 parts; Emotional impact (EI), Food anxiety (FA), and Social and dietary limitation (SDL). The age of participants was classified into 3 groups: 0-3 years old, 4-6 years old and 7-12 years old. Scores were compared using the Stata version 14.2. Independent median regression and Analysis of variant (ANOVA) were used to test association between characteristics and QoL outcomes.
Results: In our cross-sectional study, among the total of 75 completed questionnaires received, 48 (64%) were male, the mean age were 3.6 ± 0.3 years old, the median FAQLQ-PF score is 1.92 ± 1.23 which has minimal impact on their QoL. However, risk factors associated with worse QoL are in children diagnosed with food allergy at 7-12 years old, frequency of reactions, multiple food allergy and comorbidities. In this study, we found that the most food allergy is egg white, and the type of allergic food was not impacted on any domains of QoL.
Conclusion: Quality of life in food allergic children in Chiang Rai was quite good. Older children with food allergy have more impacts than more than younger children in all domains of QoL in their daily life.
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