Abstract:Food allergy quality of life questionnaires (FAQLQ) are the most common instruments used in food allergy research to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL). With the increase in food allergy treatment trials, it is important to determine which items within the FAQLQ are most and least useful in this context. We sought to assess which items of the FAQLQ-child form (CF) were most discriminative, using item response theory (IRT), which examines relations between item responses and underlying construct (in t… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.