Quality of life in children with food allergy study

Quality of Life (QoL) is an important part of evaluating the impact of diseases, treatments and other interventions on the health system. So far, we do not have the tools we need to be able to compare information about the quality of life in children with food allergy with existing information from other areas of health. By asking parents to answer questions about their child’s food allergy and to complete three existing quality of life questionnaires, this study will allow us to directly compare information about quality of life in children with food allergy with information gathered from other areas, which will help us to better understand how to approach the prevention, management and treatment of food allergy. In this study, parents or carers will be asked a few simple questions regarding their child’s food allergy and then asked to complete three separately validated quality of life questionnaires on behalf of their child: the FAQLQ-PF (30 questions), the CHU9D (9 questions) and the AQoL-6D (6 questions).