Anthroposophic parents, frequency of medical visits, and choice of physicians. 2006 Apr 27.

摘要

Floistrup et al explain their finding of differential allergic outcomes in Steiner and reference school children with certain features of the anthroposophic lifestyle such as restrictive use of antibiotics, antipyretics, and vaccinations. However, this effect might be explained by factors related to outcome assessment that have not been addressed in the article. Outcome assessment occurred by parental self-report of medical symptoms as well as physician diagnoses reported by parents. The Prevention of Allergy-Risk Factors for Sensitization Related to Fanning and Anthroposophic Lifestyle (PARSIFAL) study group has shown recently that there is no significant mis-classification bias by differential reporting of allergic symptoms by Steiner compared with reference school parents.