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Subjective Welfare, Well-Being, and Self-Reported Food Hypersensitivity in Four European Countries: Implications for European Policy |
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| Authors: | Jantine Voordouw Gerrit Antonides Margaret Fox Inmaculada Cerecedo Javier Zamora Belen de la Hoz Caballer Ewa Rokicka Judith Cornelisse-Vermaat Maciej Jewczak Pawel Starosta Marek L. Kowalska Monika J?drzejczak-Czechowicz Sonia Vázquez-Cortés Cano Escudero Bertine Flokstra de Blok Anthony Dubois Miranda Mugford Lynn J. Frewer |
| Affiliation: | 1. Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 2. Economics of Consumers and Households Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 3. Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 4. Allergy Division, Department of Medicine, Arganda del Rey, Hospital del Sureste, Madrid, Spain 5. Clinical Biostatistics Unit, University Hospital Ram??n y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain 6. Allergy Department, Madrid, Spain 7. CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain 8. Allergy Department, University Hospital Ram??n y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain 9. Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland 10. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland 11. Allergy Department, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain 12. Preventive Medicine Department, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain 13. Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 14. Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, Beatrix Children??s Hospital, University Medical Center Gronigen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 15. Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Abstract: | This study estimates the effects of food hypersensitivity on individuals?? perceived welfare and well-being compared to non-food hypersensitive individuals. Study respondents were recruited in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK. The difference in welfare between food hypersensitive respondents and those asymptomatic to foods was estimated using a subjective welfare approach, including income evaluation. Well-being was measured using the Cantril Ladder-of-Life Scale, and health status using the Self-Perceived Health Scale. The difference in well-being, welfare and health status between participant groups was explained further using a number of background variables. No significant within-country differences in welfare between food hypersensitive respondents and respondents asymptomatic to foods were found. In terms of well-being, adult food hypersensitive respondents and their spouses reported significantly less happiness than respondents and their spouses asymptomatic to foods in the Netherlands and Poland. In Spain, the spouses of the food hypersensitive respondents were significantly less happy than respondents aymptomatic to foods. The well-being of children did not significantly differ between groups. The degree of severity of food hypersensitivity was negatively related to overall health status. In Poland, food hypersensitive respondents reported worse health status compared to asymptomatic respondents. In Spain, the converse was true. Food hypersensitive respondents were generally less happy with their life as a whole than respondents asymptomatic to foods, presumably because they experienced more negative effects, which were not related to perceived health status. |
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