A great lack of knowledge regarding umbilical cord blood banking among pregnant women in Berlin, Germany.
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.
Palten
Patricia E
PE
Department of Obstetrics, Charité, Campus Virchow Klinikum Berlin, Germany. patricia.palten@charite.de
Dudenhausen
Joachim W
JW
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