Food Allergy Education and Management in Early Learning and Childcare Centres: A Scoping Review on Current Practices and Gaps

Santos, Mae Jhelene L.; Merrill, Kaitlyn A.; Ben‐Shoshan, Moshe; Gerdts, Jennifer; Giesbrecht, Don; Lavine, Elana; Prentice, Susan; Upton, Julia; Protudjer, Jennifer L. P.

doi:10.3390/children10071175

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“…The search strategy was informed by our content expertise and previous experience with scoping reviews [14][15][16][17][18]. The initial search was performed in MEDLINE (Ovid), then repeated in PsycINFO (Ovid) and CINAHL (EBSCO), as is shown in Supplement S1.…”

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The Indirect Costs of Avoidance in Food Allergy Management: A Scoping Review

Protudjer,

Engel

2024

Allergies

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Background: Food allergy management requires avoidance of allergenic food. While the direct costs of food allergy management have been described, avoidance may also contribute to time and opportunity costs. We aimed to conduct a scoping review of the peer-reviewed literature on the indirect costs of food allergy, and to characterise these costs through a series of fictitious case studies. Methods: We performed a scoping review, guided by Arskey and O’Malley’s methodological framework, and reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Eligible studies included original, peer-reviewed, English language literature with no lower limits to publication dates, which addressed the indirect costs of food allergy, including time and opportunity costs. A search strategy was developed by content experts with experience performing multi-database scoping reviews. The search was performed on 10 July 2023, managed using Rayyan (Cambridge, USA), and screened for eligibility. Results: Searches yielded 104 articles. After deduplication, 96 articles were screened at the title and abstract level; 12 articles were included following full-text screening. Of these, three studies were performed on adults with food allergy, eight studies were based on data collected from caregivers of children with food allergy, and one study made use of data reflecting adults and caregivers of children with food allergy. Collectively, indirect costs were identified as higher amongst those with vs. without food allergy. The few studies on age and food allergy differences (e.g., type and number of food allergies, history of reaction) are equivocal. Conclusions: The limited body of peer-reviewed literature supports that food allergy commonly carries substantial indirect costs across diverse measurement tools, albeit with age-group differences.

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