Chiemi Taru

Full length articleVolume 87p460-467Open access Affiliations & Notes aDepartment of Nursing, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Science, Kobe, Japan bGlobal Nursing Research Center, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan cDepartment of Family Nursing, Division of Health Science and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan dResearch Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community, University of Hyogo, Akashi, Japan...

1 Introduction Recent times have seen reports of an increase in the global prevalence of food allergies (FA), with this trend potentially influenced not only by a true rise in the number of affected individuals but also by heightened awareness of the condition, changes in healthcare-seeking behavior, and increased self-reporting (Leung et al. 2026).