Health-related quality of life in food hypersensitive schoolchildren and their families: parents' perceptions

Table 4 Significant rank mean score differences in six CHQ-PF28 scales¹ between schoolchildren with and without allergy-associated parameters².

Allergy-associated parameters		*HRQL* ³
		*Child*		*Parent*		*Family*
		PhS	PsS	PE	PT	FA	FC
Food reactions
Gastro intestinal symptoms (N = 67)	Yes No p			77.6 86.1 0.033
OAS – Oral Allergy Syndrome⁴ (N = 63)	Yes No p		51.6 47.7 0.016
Difficulty breathing⁴ (N = 53)	Yes No p	47.0 51.6 0.008	52.6 47.6 0.006				75.6 64.3 0.021
Anaphylaxis⁴ (N = 20)	Yes No p		55.3 48.6 0.003
Additional family member(s) with food hypersensitivity (N = 78)	Yes No p			79.6 85.6 0.045	88.7 92.7 0.045	82.8 89.3 0.045
Sibling(s) with food hypersensitivity (N = 45)	Yes No p		46.5 51.1 0.023		85.2 93.0 0.006
Male gender (N = 63)	Yes No p	47.2 52.1 0.014

¹ The six CHQ-PF28 health scales used in this study are: PhS = Physical Summary measure; PsS = Psychosocial Summary measure; PE = Parental impact-Emotional; PT = Parental impact-Time; FA = Family impact-Activities; FC = Family impact-Cohesion [28].
² Allergy-associated parameters tested not showing significant mean differences were: the food reactions skin symptoms and eye-nose symptoms; food reactions in the past 12 months; parent(s) with food hypersensitivity.
³ HRQL = Health-related quality of life
⁴ Score means shown in italics indicate higher score means, i.e. higher HRQL, when the allergy-associated parameter mentioned was present.

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