Food Allergies and Quality of Life among School-Aged Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Recently, besides the focus on the medical diagnosis and therapeutic interventions for food allergy (FA), the psychosocial aspects of this frequent condition have also been investigated. The current systematic review aimed to explore and synthesize the scientific evidence published from January 2015 to April 2022 on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among children and adolescents with FAs. Twenty-eight research studies were included in the review, which was conducted on three databases (PubMed, Scopus and Cochrane Library). In most studies, the scores indicate an average level of HRQoL for children and adolescents with FAs, with girls and older children being more negatively affected than boys and younger ones, respectively. Few studies compared HRQoL between children with FA and heal

SUBMITTER: Drakouli AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10047601 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature