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    Peanut Allergy in Children: Relationships to Health-Related Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Parental Stress

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    2008-07-22
    Author
    Roy, Kimberlee Marie
    Publisher
    University of Kansas
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    61 pages
    Type
    Dissertation
    Degree Level
    PH.D.
    Discipline
    Clinical Child Psychology
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    This study examined relationships between Health Related Quality of Life, child anxiety, and parental stress in a sample of children with peanut allergy. 51 families were recruited to complete a series of measures including a demographic questionnaire, the Parenting Stress Index, a PedsQL 4.0, and a series of questions regarding their child's peanut allergy. Children completed a Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, a PedsQL 4.0, and some specific questions regarding their peanut allergy. Regression analysis showed that child anxiety and parenting stress were found to significantly predict parent proxy-report of their child's health related quality of life; child anxiety, parenting stress, length of diagnosis, and requiring an epinephrine shot predicted self-report of health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life in children with peanut allergy was affected not only by the severity of the allergy, but family reactions to the allergy.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4219
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