Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the traditional Chinese Food Allergy Quality of Life-Parental Burden questionnaire into simplified Chinese for use in mainland China.
Zeen Li, Tingfan Leung, Lang Tian and 5 others
PMID 37170700WHAT IT FOUND
The simplified Chinese Food Allergy Quality of Life-Parental Burden questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for assessing parents of children aged 0-5 with food allergies in mainland China.
It accurately measures two dimensions: limitations in life and emotional distress.
Key findings
01The simplified Chinese version of the questionnaire demonstrated high internal consistency and stability over a 10-day period.
02The tool validly measures two distinct domains of parental burden: 'limitation in life' and 'emotional distress'.
03The questionnaire is specifically validated for parents of children aged 0-5 years, limiting its generalisability to older children.
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What it does not show
The study only included parents of children aged 0-5 years, so the tool may not be valid for older children. Convenience sampling was used, resulting in a sample with very few parents of low educational background. Food allergy diagnoses relied on parental report, although researchers attempted to verify these with medical details. The questionnaire does not provide a cut-off score to define what level of burden is clinically significant.
Declared interests
The authors declared no specific funding and no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this tool is validated for parents of children older than 5 years or for populations with lower educational attainment, as the study sample was restricted to parents of children aged 0-5 and had few low-education participants.