Children’s Awareness and Uses of Odor Cues in Everyday Life: A Finland–France Comparison

Ferdenzi, Camille; Mustonen, Sari; Tuorila, Hely; Schaal, Benoı̂st

doi:10.1007/s12078-008-9020-6

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“…This is a well-established test that has been used by researchers in a number of previous studies on children (e.g. Dudova et al 2011;Ferdenzi et al 2008b;Renner et al 2009), as well as by many clinicians across Europe (e.g. Hummel et al 1997;Kobal et al 1996).…”

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“…There was no significant interaction between participant sex and COBEL component, but because our main hypothesis concerned sex differences, for completeness, we also examined sex differences for each COBEL component in three separate ANCOVAs (including the between-subjects factor of country of residence, and the covariate of age). Girls scored higher than boys in relation to the Social (F(1,169)= (Ferdenzi et al 2008b). Figure 2 gives scores on an item-by-item basis in order to illustrate the extent to which the countrylevel differences are generalizable across the questionnaire Items.…”

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“…Seo et al (2011) report several cross-regional differences in attitudes towards odors; for example, odor is more important in relation to emotions and memories, and is used more in day-to-day life, by Mexican respondents compared with Korean, Czech and German respondents. Similarly, Finnish children report more reactivity and attention to odors than French 4 children (Ferdenzi et al 2008b). Further, people who report greater exposure to olfactory activities (such as cooking) in childhood and adulthood score higher on a questionnaire about their tendency to react to odors in everyday life (Nováková et al, 2014).…”

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“…For example, laboratory exposure to odorants or purposeful olfactory training can alter olfactory function (Boulkroune et al 2007;Dalton et al 2002;Wysocki et al 1989). Outside the laboratory, cultural differences in reactions to odors may arise from the prevalence of that odor within that cultural context (Ferdenzi et al 2008b;Ferdenzi et al 2011). Researchers have noted cultural differences in reactions to food odors (Distel et al 1999;Hudson, 1999;Pangborn et al 1988;Schleidt et al 1988), in assessment of odors as pleasant or unpleasant (e.g.…”

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“…manure, hay) (Hirsch, 2006), and exposure to some of these types of odors has been linked to odor awareness (Nováková et al 2014). A subsidiary aim of our study was to evaluate the ease and practicality of the usage of the COBEL outside of the 5 European cultures where it has been previously used (Ferdenzi et al 2008a(Ferdenzi et al , 2008b. We were also able to make use of COBEL scores and olfactory identification scores that had been collected from children in the Czech Republic, in order to contrast olfactory behavior in two different cultures.…”

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Sex Differences in Olfactory Behavior in Namibian and Czech Children

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Nováková

Jash³

et al. 2014

Chem. Percept.

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Sex differences in olfaction are well established, but explanations for those sex differences remain incomplete. One contributing factor could be individual-or cultural-level differences in exposure to odors. We tested whether frequent engagement with common sources of domestic odors (cooking, domestic animals, siblings) was linked to individual differences in olfactory reactivity and awareness among children in southern Namibia, and also compared study populations in southern Namibia and the Czech Republic using the established COBEL (Children's Olfactory Behaviour in Everyday Life) questionnaire. We did not find any effects of engagement with odor sources on olfactory behavior, but our results were consistent with usual olfactory sex differences in that girls scored higher than boys in measures of olfactory reactivity and awareness. Further, among the Czech children (but not among the Namibian children), odor identification abilities were positively linked to COBEL scores.Our data contribute to the literature that finds that sex differences in olfactory awareness are apparent across a diverse range of cultures and age groups.

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Development and Psychometric Validation of the Taste And Smell Tool for Evaluation (TASTE) Questionnaire

Niklassen

Christensen

Fjældstad

et al. 2022

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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ImportanceThe human senses of taste and smell are essential in everyday life. However, as clinical testing of the senses and patient-reported sensory problems are often diverging, additional validated questionnaires are essential for the evaluation of chemosensory impairments.ObjectiveTo develop an instrument with all relevant domains concerning chemosensory dysfunction and quality of life using modern psychometrics.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThe study was designed as a questionnaire study for developing a new instrument. The study started in 2019 and was completed in 2022. Patients with chemosensory dysfunction were recruited from a specialized smell and taste clinic at an ear, nose, and throat department in Denmark. Healthy participants with no history of chemosensory dysfunction were recruited through social media.Main Outcomes and MeasuresEight domains were included (distorted chemosensation, emotional, food and meals, social, hygiene, danger, work, and relationship), and 35 items were generated based on review of the existing literature and interviews with patients and experts. Participants were tested with the Major Depression Inventory, 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, Taste Sprays, and Sniffin’ Sticks for chemosensory function. Descriptive statistics were calculated for all items. Reliability, internal consistency, and validity were investigated, and a Rasch model was fitted. Healthy controls (n = 39) filled out the questionnaire for comparison of known-groups validity. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed. Finally, item reduction was performed, resulting in a final version with 21 items in 8 domains.ResultsThe study included responses from 316 patients, 183 women (58%) and 133 men (42%), with a mean (SD) age of 57 (15.1) years. Rasch model fit was acceptable with P &gt; .05 for all items. An 8-dimensional confirmatory factor analysis model showed a better fit than a bifactor confirmatory factor analysis model. Cronbach α ranged from 0.65 to 0.86. Criterion validity with the Sniffin’ Sticks, Taste Sprays, Major Depression Inventory, and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey was satisfactory. The test-retest reliability was good in all domains, ranging from 0.55 to 0.86. All domains were discriminative, except the social and work domains.Conclusions and RelevanceIn this survey study, the instrument was validated with 8 domains related to chemosensory dysfunction and quality of life. All items had good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, interitem correlations, item-total correlations, and Rasch model fit. The questionnaire appears suitable for use in clinical and research settings.

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Human Olfactory Perception

Gelperin

2010

The Chemistry and Biology of Volatiles

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The scientific study of human olfactory perception, as for any sensory modality, perforce involves the use of rigorous psychophysical and psychometric methods, that is administering tightly controlled physical stimuli to human subjects while obtaining verbal or motor responses that indicate the subject's evaluation of the stimuli. The special challenges inherent in applying controlled and quantitative odorant stimuli often require sophisticated instrumentation for generating known concentrations of selected odorants 1 and collaborations between analytical chemists and psychophysicists to directly measure and control the chemical properties of the stimuli used to elicit subject responses adequate to the task of defining the relevant psychometric functions. 2-6 Assessments of olfactory thresholds require careful attention to methodology and careful comparison of the several different methods currently employed, 7 as do methods for determining odour quality. 8 A central problem in the study of olfactory information processing and the olfactory percepts that result from neural processing of olfactory stimuli is the lack of clear stimulus dimensions in olfaction, analogous to wavelength in vision and frequency in audition. 9 The relationship between molecular properties of an odorant molecule and its sensory properties is not yet understood. 10 To overcome this limitation, a large empirical literature has been developed to relate human olfactory perception to chemical structures grouped into classes of related compounds. 11 Using this prior psychophysical information on responses of human subjects to olfactory stimuli of varied chemical structure, 12 one can begin to make predictions of perceptual responses to new compounds or mixtures of compounds, albeit

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Children’s Awareness and Uses of Odor Cues in Everyday Life: A Finland–France Comparison

Cited by 40 publications

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Sex Differences in Olfactory Behavior in Namibian and Czech Children

Sex Differences in Olfactory Behavior in Namibian and Czech Children

Development and Psychometric Validation of the Taste And Smell Tool for Evaluation (TASTE) Questionnaire

Human Olfactory Perception

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