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- The study aimed to create and assess a food allergy educational program for parents of children with food allergies.
- The results indicated significant improvements in parents' ability to use an epinephrine autoinjector, with scores rising from 3.4 to nearly perfect at 5.95 post-training, maintaining a high level at one year.
- Parents reported increased comfort and knowledge about food allergies, with satisfaction ratings remaining favorable, and the incidence of allergic reactions significantly decreased after the program.
Article Abstract
Objective: To develop and validate a food allergy educational program.
Study Design: Materials developed through focus groups and parental and expert review were submitted to 60 parents of newly referred children with a prior food allergy diagnosis and an epinephrine autoinjector. The main outcome was correct demonstration of an autoinjector.
Results: The correct number of autoinjector activation steps increased from 3.4 to 5.95 (of 6) after training (P < .001) and was 5.47 at 1 year (P < .05). The mean score for comfort with using the autoinjector (7-point Likert scale) before the curriculum was 4.63 (somewhat comfortable) and increased to 6.23 after the intervention (P < .05) and remained elevated at 1 year (6.03). Knowledge tests (maximum 15) increased from a mean score of 9.2 to 12.4 (P < .001) at the initial visit and remained at 12.7 at 1 year. The annualized rate of allergic reactions fell from 1.77 (historical) the year prior, to 0.42 (P < .001) after the program. On a 7-point Likert scale, all satisfaction categories remained above a favorable mean score of 6: straight-forward, organized, interesting, relevant, and recommend to others.
Conclusions: This food allergy educational curriculum for parents, now available online at no cost, showed high levels of satisfaction and efficacy.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3307837 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.09.056 | DOI Listing |
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