Quality of Life in Food Allergic Families
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Enrollment
- 58
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Difference in validated quality of life survey
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Food allergies are becoming more prevalent with more children being diagnosed with food allergies each year. Food allergies place a tremendous burden not just on the patient but on his/her family as well. In an attempt to provide better care to the investigators patients, the investigators would like to determine if regular contact with our food allergy nurse has a positive effect on a family's perceived quality of life.
Detailed Description
We intend to show a difference between the intervention group, who will receive a food allergy packet, along with three follow up phone calls from our trained allergy nurse, and the control group, will be given the food allergy packet only. We expect the intervention group to score higher on the quality of life survey, showing that the support and education of our allergy nurse has a positive effect on quality of life of our patients and their families.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- — to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •IgE mediated food allergy
- •Ages 0-17
- •Willing to participate
Exclusion Criteria
- •Food sensitivities
- •Unable to understand or read survey
- •Unable to be available for follow up survey and nurse phone calls.
Arms & Interventions
Education and counseling
Phone calls using behavioral techniques
Intervention: Counseling (Behavioral)
Control
Single phone call
Intervention: Placebo phone call (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Difference in validated quality of life survey
Time Frame: twelve months
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Alan Baptist
MD
University of Michigan