Prevalence and indoor environment risk factors of parent-reported food allergy symptoms among preschool children in Haikou City, China: a cross-sectional survey
Cross-sectional survey finds environmental influences on food allergy symptoms in preschool children from Haikou, suggesting prevention strategies.
Key Points
This survey aims to determine the prevalence of food allergy symptoms reported by parents and identify indoor environmental risk factors in preschool children.
Conducted a cross-sectional survey with 3,049 preschool children across eight kindergartens.
Utilized EpiData 3.1 for data collection and SPSS 25.0 for analysis.
Applied Chi-square test for univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression for indoor environmental factors.
Prevalence of parent-reported food allergy symptoms was 9.25%.
Age (OR = 1.891, 95% CI: 1.246–2.871) and family allergy history (OR = 2.893, 95% CI: 2.233–3.748) were significant risk factors.