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Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Allergy: Development and Reproducibility of a Questionnaire for Clinical Diagnosis

Objective. To develop a questionnaire as a screening tool for adverse reactions to foods in children and to assess the technical reproducibility by test-retest. Methods. Reproducibility of the questionnaire was performed by the literature review, preparing the preliminary questionnaire, peer review,...

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Autores principales: Lyra, Nilza R. S., Motta, Maria E. F. A., Rocha, Luiz A. R., Solé, Dirceu, Peixoto, Décio M., Rizzo, José A., Taborda-Barata, Luis, Sarinho, Emanuel S. C.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/920679
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author Lyra, Nilza R. S.
Motta, Maria E. F. A.
Rocha, Luiz A. R.
Solé, Dirceu
Peixoto, Décio M.
Rizzo, José A.
Taborda-Barata, Luis
Sarinho, Emanuel S. C.
author_facet Lyra, Nilza R. S.
Motta, Maria E. F. A.
Rocha, Luiz A. R.
Solé, Dirceu
Peixoto, Décio M.
Rizzo, José A.
Taborda-Barata, Luis
Sarinho, Emanuel S. C.
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description Objective. To develop a questionnaire as a screening tool for adverse reactions to foods in children and to assess the technical reproducibility by test-retest. Methods. Reproducibility of the questionnaire was performed by the literature review, preparing the preliminary questionnaire, peer review, pretest, and retest analysis. The study of the test-retest reproducibility was cross-sectional and descriptive. Kappa coefficient was used to study the reproducibility of the questionnaire. The sample consisted of 125 2–4 year-old children from 15 daycare centers in Recife, Brazil, and interviews with parents or caregivers were used to collect data. Results. From the total children, sixty-three were boys (50.4%), forty-six were two years old (36.8%), forty-seven were three years old (37.6%), and thirty-two were four years old (25.6%). Forty caregivers reported that their child had health problems with food. Most frequently reported offending foods were milk, peanuts, shrimp, and chocolate. Nine questions showed a good Kappa index (≥0,6). Conclusions. The questionnaire used needs to be resized and reshaped on the basis of the issues with good internal consistency and reproducibility. The use of a validated and reproducible questionnaire in the children represents an important contribution towards assessing an eventual rise in overt food allergy.
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spelling pubmed-38064792013-11-06 Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Allergy: Development and Reproducibility of a Questionnaire for Clinical Diagnosis Lyra, Nilza R. S. Motta, Maria E. F. A. Rocha, Luiz A. R. Solé, Dirceu Peixoto, Décio M. Rizzo, José A. Taborda-Barata, Luis Sarinho, Emanuel S. C. J Allergy (Cairo) Research Article Objective. To develop a questionnaire as a screening tool for adverse reactions to foods in children and to assess the technical reproducibility by test-retest. Methods. Reproducibility of the questionnaire was performed by the literature review, preparing the preliminary questionnaire, peer review, pretest, and retest analysis. The study of the test-retest reproducibility was cross-sectional and descriptive. Kappa coefficient was used to study the reproducibility of the questionnaire. The sample consisted of 125 2–4 year-old children from 15 daycare centers in Recife, Brazil, and interviews with parents or caregivers were used to collect data. Results. From the total children, sixty-three were boys (50.4%), forty-six were two years old (36.8%), forty-seven were three years old (37.6%), and thirty-two were four years old (25.6%). Forty caregivers reported that their child had health problems with food. Most frequently reported offending foods were milk, peanuts, shrimp, and chocolate. Nine questions showed a good Kappa index (≥0,6). Conclusions. The questionnaire used needs to be resized and reshaped on the basis of the issues with good internal consistency and reproducibility. The use of a validated and reproducible questionnaire in the children represents an important contribution towards assessing an eventual rise in overt food allergy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3806479/ /pubmed/24198840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/920679 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nilza R. S. Lyra et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Motta, Maria E. F. A.
Rocha, Luiz A. R.
Solé, Dirceu
Peixoto, Décio M.
Rizzo, José A.
Taborda-Barata, Luis
Sarinho, Emanuel S. C.
Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Allergy: Development and Reproducibility of a Questionnaire for Clinical Diagnosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/920679
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