Validation of the English Version of the Scale for Psychosocial Factors in Food Allergy and the Relationship with Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Self-Efficacy

Table 2

Relationships (Pearson’s ) between the psychosocial impact of food allergy, quality of life, self-efficacy, mental health, FAIM scores, and demographic and food allergy characteristics.

	Psychosocial impact (SPS-FA)
	Social impact	Crisis	QoL	SPS-FA total
Age of parent	−.19	−.06	−.17	−.18
Age of child	−.15	−.05	−.14	−.14
Number of allergies	.20	.22	.19	.25
Quality of life (FAQL-PB)	.59	.45	.66	.68
Food allergy self-efficacy (FASE-P)	−.46	−.34	−.41	−.49
Managing social activities	−.47	−.34	−.44	−.50
Precaution and prevention	−.39	−.26	−.32	−.39
Allergic treatment	−.15	−.05	−.15	−.14
Food allergen identification	−.10	−.08	−.14	−.12
Seeking information	−.28	−.22	−.22	−.29
General health questionnaire (GHQ12)	.32	.36	.53	.46
FAIM	.22	.19	.30	.29

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QoL: quality of life; FAIM: food allergy independent measure.