The minimal clinically important difference of app-based electronic patient-reported outcomes for hay fever.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hay fever is a common allergic disease, with an estimated worldwide prevalence of 14.4% and a variety of symptoms. This study assessed the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of nasal symptom score (NSS), non-nasal symptom score (NNSS), and total symptoms score (TSS) for app-based hay-fever monitoring.

Methods

MCIDs were calculated based on the data from a previous large-scale, crowdsourced, cross-sectional study using AllerSearch, an in-house smartphone application. MCIDs were determined with anchor-based and distribution-based methods. The face scale score of the Japanese Allergic Conjunctival Disease Standard Quality of Life Questionnaire Domain III and the daily stress level due to hay fever were used as anchors for determining MCIDs. The MCID estim

SUBMITTER: Nagino K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151605 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature