Translation, cross‐cultural adaptation and validation of the traditional Chinese Food Allergy Quality of Life‐Parental Burden questionnaire into simplified Chinese for use in mainland China

Abstract

Food allergy (FA), a common allergic disease in childhood, is the hypersensitive response by the immune system to proteins in food that can affect respiratory and cardiovascular systems, the gastrointestinal tract and the skin simultaneously and with a variety of severity (Pyrhönen et al., 2015). Children with FA often have multiple allergic comorbidities, such as asthma, eczema and hay fever (Gore et al., 2016). FA could be immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated, non-IgEmediated or mixed type (Lopez et al., 2022). Food intolerances were excluded from this study (Bischoff, 2022).FA has been one of the fastest-growing public health concerns with epidemic-like features (