Food allergy independent measures were developed for children, adolescents and adults and were shown to be valid, relevant and reliable. This supports the suitability of the FAIMs for evaluating construct validity.

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Disease-specific HRQL questionnaires may be more suitable to measure clinically important impairments in HRQL or HRQL differences over time in food allergic patients. However, generic HRQL questionnaires are indispensable for the comparison between different diseases and are thus complementary.