Development and acceptability of a decision-aid for food allergy oral immunotherapy in children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited decision-support tools are available to help shared decision-making (SDM) regarding food oral immunotherapy (OIT) initiation. No current tool covers all foods, forms, and pediatric ages for which OIT is offered.

Methods

In compliance with International Patient Decision Aid Standards criteria, this pediatric decision-aid comparing OIT versus avoidance was developed in three stages. Nested qualitative data assessing OIT decisional needs were supplemented with evidence-synthesis from the OIT literature to create the prototype decision-aid content. This underwent iterative development with food allergy experts and patient advocacy stakeholders until unanimous consensus was reached regarding content, bias, readability, and utility in making a choice. Lastly, th

SUBMITTER: Anagnostou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11934854 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature