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The Food Allergy Quality of Life Questionnaires (FAQLQ) are disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) questionnaires for patients with food allergy. The FAQLQs are reliable and valid instruments to measure the impact of food allergy on HRQL. In total, there are five different forms of the FAQLQ. Three forms are completed by the patients themselves (Child Form, FAQLQ-CF; Teenager Form, FAQLQ-TF; and Adult Form, FAQLQ-AF), and two forms are completed by parents of food-allergic children (Parent Form; FAQLQ-PF) and teenagers (Parent Form Teenager; FAQLQ-PFT).
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As part of the EuroPrevall project, a large European multicenter study on food allergy, a series of HRQL questionnaires for food-allergic patients of all ages were developed and validated. These questionnaires were named the Food Allergy Quality of Life Questionnaires (FAQLQ). Three of these questionnaires were developed to be completed by the patients themselves, and two...
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Flokstra-de Blok, B.M.J. (2014). Food Allergy Quality of Life Questionnaires (FAQLQ). In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3906
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