Feeding characteristics in young children with food allergies.
| Tuesday, May 28, 2024 |
| 12:10 PM - 12:25 PM |
| River View Room 05 |
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Feeding characteristics in young children with food allergies.
12:10 PM - 12:25 PMPresentation summary
Our research aims included a) describing parent-reported feeding behaviours, stress, and the impact of these on quality of life in a cohort of young children with medically diagnosed IgE-mediated FAs; and b) to explore differences in presentation across three age groups (6-18months, 19-35months, 36-59months).
To achieve these aims we recruited parents of children with IgE-mediated FA from waiting rooms of allergy clinics at 3 major NSW hospitals. The Behavioural Paediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale (BPFAS); Parental Stress Scale (PSS); and Feeding Swallowing Impact Scale (FS-IS) were provided. Consenting parents completed these online.
To date, data on 56 children has been collected (6-18months n=10; 19-35months n=22; 36-59months n=19). Overall, approximately 1 in 5 children were reported by their parents to have clinically significant feeding behaviours on the BPFAS, but only 11% of parents (n=6) had sought help. Comparison of scores on the BPFAS, PSS and FS-IS found no significant differences across the three age groups, although it was noted that reported difficult feeding behaviours increased with age. Parents who reported higher frequency of difficult feeding behaviours also reported higher levels of parental stress (r=0.485, p<0.01). Further results will be available at the time of presentation.
Although our results showed that there is a subset of this cohort reported typical by their parents, there were a proportion with clinically significant feeding behaviours and these behaviours were reported at higher levels than in the general population. Improved diagnostics and further research into appropriate supports for those that are identifying feeding challenges in this group, is warranted.
(Data collection funded by SPA New Researcher Grant, 2021.)
Key messages
2. The impact of these behaviours on parental stress.
3. The impact of these behaviours on feeding related quality of life
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