Development of a screening questionnaire for the study of food allergy in adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

As far as we know, no screening questionnaire has been developed and validated for identification of adverse food reactions in Portuguese-speaking adults, as an initial approach towards the investigation of cases of possible food allergy. Thus, the objective of this study was to develop and validate a screening questionnaire of food allergy in adult Portuguese-speaking patients.

Methods

This was a multicentre, cross-sectional study using a simple random sample of 186 adults between 18 and 82 years old from various parts of the centre of Portugal. Intelligibility of the questionnaire was first assessed in 24 patients with confirmed IgE- or non-IgE-mediated food allergy, and in 24 volunteers without food allergies. The 17-item questionnaire was subsequently a

SUBMITTER: Lozoya-Ibanez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451434 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature