Online version of the food allergy quality of life questionnaire-adult form: Validity, feasibility and cross-cultural comparison

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 574-581

  Goossens, N J ^a   Flokstra de Blok, B M J ^a   Vlieg Boerstra, B J ^a   Duiverman, E J ^a   Weiss, C C ^b   Furlong, T J ^b   Dubois, A E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network   (United States)

Author keywords

EuroPrevall; Food allergy; Food allergy quality of life questionnaire; Health related quality of life; USA

Indexed keywords

SESAME SEED OIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGG ALLERGY; ELECTRONICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD ALLERGY QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK ALLERGY; PEANUT ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SESAME ALLERGY; SHELL FISH ALLERGY; SOY ALLERGY; TREE NUT ALLERGY; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY; VEGETABLE; VEGETABLE ALLERGY; WHEAT; WHEAT ALLERGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952600736     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2011.03711.x     Document Type: Article

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