Quality of Life in Food Allergic Families

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Food Allergy

Treatments: Behavioral: Counseling; Behavioral: Placebo phone call

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01054950

HUM 33980

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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58 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Education and counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Phone calls using behavioral techniques

Treatment:

Behavioral: Counseling

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Single phone call

Treatment:

Behavioral: Placebo phone call