Quality of Life in Food Allergic Families
- Conditions
- Food Allergy
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Placebo phone callBehavioral: Counseling
- Registration Number
- NCT01054950
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 58
- IgE mediated food allergy
- Ages 0-17
- Willing to participate
- Food sensitivities
- Unable to understand or read survey
- Unable to be available for follow up survey and nurse phone calls.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Control Placebo phone call Single phone call Education and counseling Counseling Phone calls using behavioral techniques
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in validated quality of life survey twelve months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Michigan Allergy and Immunology Clinic
🇺🇸Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States