title: A great lack of knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood banking among pregnant women in Berlin, Germany.
abstract: we evaluated what German-speaking women in Berlin know about umbilical cord blood banking (UCBB) and whether a correlation exists between women's knowledge about UCBB and level of education.
  
  
  
  we used the anonymous questionnaire given to German-speaking women in Berlin, Germany.
  
  
  
  a total of 300 questionnaires could be evaluated. Although three quarters of our population heard of UCBB, most had no further knowledge about the method. Only about one-third of the interviewed women were informed about whether certain diseases had been treated with umbilical cord blood (UCB) by the time the survey was being conducted, whereas 50-65% did not know how to answer these questions.
  
  
  
  women in Berlin were poorly educated about the usefulness, the costs and the methods of cryopreservation. To some extent there is a correlation between women's level of education and their knowledge regarding UCB.
authors: Department of Obstetrics, Charité, Campus Virchow Klinikum Berlin, Germany. patricia.palten@charite.de
authors: Patricia E
authors: PE
authors: Palten
authors: Joachim W
authors: JW
authors: Dudenhausen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001604:Berlin; D001771:Blood Banks; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005312:Fetal Blood; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult