A study to assess the effectiveness of a professional and lay support service for parents of new-born cleft babies.
Since 1981 the Leicestershire Support Service has offered a combination of professional and lay advice to parents of new-born cleft babies. This paper evaluates this service by interviewing retrospectively the parents of two groups of children, those born before the service was available and those born since. As a control group, a prospective study of parents with unclefted children was carried out. The strengths and weaknesses of the current Support Service are identified and recommendations for improvements are proposed.
Turner
M M
MM
Speech Therapy Service, Leicester Royal Infirmary.
Milward
T M
TM
D001294:Attitude to Health; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000523:psychology*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012944:Social Support; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013518:Surgery, Plastic