One-year Survey of Anaphylaxis in Outpatient Children Allergic to Peanuts, Walnuts/Hazelnuts, Shellfish

Completed

• Conditions: Food Allergy
• Interventions: Other: Food allergy questionnaire; Other: Control Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT02640560
• Lead Sponsor: Stefania La Grutta, MD

Brief Summary

In Italy, few data about anaphylaxis due to peanuts in pediatric age are available, conversely data about walnuts/hazelnuts, shellfish/mollusks anaphylaxis have not yet been collected.

Children with physician-confirmed food allergy to peanuts, walnuts/hazelnuts and shellfish/mollusks will be recruited from 9 allergy clinics located in the Italian Territory (Bologna, Lecce, Napoli, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Roma, Torino, Trento).

Parent of food allergic children will compile a food allergy questionnaire (questions about general information on the family, on life and food habits, on indoor environment, on health status, on clinical aspects of the allergy, on the access to diagnostic and treatment resources).

Parent of healthy children will compile a control questionnaire (questions about general information on the family, on life and food habits and on indoor environment) The 1-year survey will determine the frequency of anaphylaxis in allergic outpatient children.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-10
• Primary Completion: 2014-04
• Study Completion: 2014-04
• Status Verified: 2015-12
• Study First Submitted: 2015-12-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-12-23
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-12-23
• Study First Posted: 2015-12-29
• Last Update Posted: 2015-12-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Children with food allergy	Food allergy questionnaire	Children with food allergy to nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, shellfish and mollusks (1-14 years old). The Parents of the cases children will compile a Food allergy questionnaire
Healthy Children	Control Questionnaire	Healthy Children (1-14 years old) The Parents of the control children will compile a Control questionnaire

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frequency of Anaphylaxis in 1 year	1 year	To determine the frequency of anaphylaxis in allergic outpatient children