The Food Allergy Superheroes Training (FAST) Program

Study Summary

Among children with a food allergy, strict avoidance (e.g., elimination of allergenic foods from one's diet) is the only intervention capable of preventing potentially devastating health-related sequelae including anaphylaxis and death. Youths from low-income backgrounds are particularly impacted by food allergies and may be the population most apt to benefit from a brief, portable, and engaging skills-based intervention designed to teach young children the skills needed to remain adherent to food allergy safety guidelines. Data collected as part of the proposed project will lay the groundwork for a line of federally-funded intervention research broadly examining how to promote adherence to food allergy safety guidelines among young children from low-income backgrounds through implementation of a robust, efficient, and portable intervention.

Primary Outcome

Designed to provide an objective measure of a child's behavior to an unknown food-item in the real world. Modeled after similar methodology employed in prior skills training research. Child's response coded (see Research Strategy), based upon video assessment. Higher scores (ranging from 0 to 4) indicate greater adherence. Scores represent change from pre-intervention to one-month follow-up assessment.

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL Food Allergy Superheroes Training (FAST) Program
• OTHER Food Allergy Knowledge Intervention

Study Locations (1)