Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY-IN PRACTICE
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 506-+Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2017.11.044
Keywords
Qualitative; Development; Model; Item generation; Management
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- AHRQ HHS [K08 HS024599] Funding Source: Medline
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BACKGROUND: We have previously developed a food allergyespecific developmental model, that explained emotions and coping styles, among children aged 6 to 15years in Ireland. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate the usefulness of the developmental model in a large multicountry data set, including any mediators of coping style, and to use the findings to generate an item pool that will form the basis for 3 age-appropriate self-report questionnaires to measure coping and emotions. METHODS: We conducted deductive thematic analysis on secondary data from interviews with 274 participants aged 6 to 23 years, and 119 parents from Australia, Ireland, Italy, the UK, and the USA. Analysis was undertaken across the entire data set. RESULTS: The Food Allergy Coping and Emotions (FACE) model has 5 major themes: (1) experiences and emotions, (2) search for normality, (3) management and coping, (4) external mediators, and (5) internal mediators (between emotions and coping). These themes were present across countries, but differed according to age. CONCLUSIONS: Early-life experiences provide the foundation for later cognitions and behaviors. The expanded FACE developmental model is useful in explaining emotions and coping styles across different age groups and countries. These data will also be used to generate an age-specific bank of items for the development of 3 (age-specific self-report, and parent proxy) questionnaires to assess emotions and coping in food allergy. Findings provide insight into how particular styles of coping develop and vary from patient to patient and may also guide clinician-patient communication and the development of individualized management strategies. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
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