Title |
Health-related quality of life in adolescents with screening-detected celiac disease, before and one year after diagnosis and initiation of gluten-free diet, a prospective nested case-referent study
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-142 |
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Authors |
Katrina Nordyke, Fredrik Norström, Lars Lindholm, Hans Stenlund, Anna Rosén, Anneli Ivarsson |
Abstract |
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic disorder in genetically predisposed individuals in which a small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy is precipitated by dietary gluten. It can be difficult to diagnose because signs and symptoms may be absent, subtle, or not recognized as CD related and therefore not prompt testing within routine clinical practice. Thus, most people with CD are undiagnosed and a public health intervention, which involves screening the general population, is an option to find those with unrecognized CD. However, how these screening-detected individuals experience the diagnosis and treatment (gluten-free diet) is not fully understood. The aim of this study is to investigate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adolescents with screening-detected CD before and one year after diagnosis and treatment. |
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Canada | 1 | 50% |
Unknown | 1 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
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Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 11 | 15% |
Researcher | 9 | 12% |
Other | 6 | 8% |
Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 8% |
Other | 16 | 21% |
Unknown | 14 | 19% |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 13% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 8% |
Psychology | 6 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
Other | 5 | 7% |
Unknown | 14 | 19% |