Evaluating an online self-help intervention for parents of children with food allergies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents of children with food allergies (CwFA) experience reduced quality of life (QoL) and may have reduced access to in-person interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic. This trial developed and evaluated an online, self-help, information provision website, aimed at improving QoL in parents of CwFA.

Methods

In a single-blinded, randomised controlled trial (RCT), participants were randomised to either receive access to the website or a waiting-list control. At baseline, post-intervention (week 4) and follow-up (week 8), measures of parental food allergy-related QoL, depression, anxiety, stress, intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and self-efficacy were obtained.

Results

A total of 205 participants were randomised; 97% were females, 91% white and 78% educated ≥ de

SUBMITTER: Sugunasingha N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9306710 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature