Sanghee Shin, Sehun Jang, Jiwon Kim, Jeongmin Song, Seeun Park, Yeonghee Kim, Min Hee Lee, Hyun Mi Kim, Young Ran Choi, Minyoung Jung, Minji Kim, Ji Young Lee, Jihyun Baek, Sukyung Kim, Jihyun Kim, Kangmo Ahn
Background: Oral immunotherapy (OIT) can impose psychological burdens on patients and their parents due to the necessary preparations and repeated adverse reactions. Objective: To investigate changes in quality of life (QoL) and psychological burden in parents of children receiving OIT for food allergy (FA). Methods: Children aged 3-13 years with FA were enrolled. Parents were asked to fill out the Korean versions of the Food Allergy Quality of Life-Parental Burden (FAQL-PB), the Korean versions of the Food Allergy Quality of Life-Parental Form (K-FAQLQ-PF), the Korean versions of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (K-BAI), and the Korean version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for depression before OIT (T1), after 2 months of updosing (T2), and after the end of the updosing phase (T3)...
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