title: [Effects of an early psychological intervention on parents of children with cleft lip/palate].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide basis for effects of an early psychological intervention on parents of children with cleft lip/palate, and investigate the effects of an early psychological intervention to them.
  
  
  METHODS
  One self-administered questionnaire (SCL-90) was applied in 102 parents of children with cleft lip/palate, compared to 126 parents of healthy individuals on the day of admission. They were given the psychological intervention during hospitalization and 3 months after discharge. The questionnaire (SCL-90) was again applied to them on the day of discharge and 3 months after discharge.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using the questionnaire (SCL-90), the answer scores of somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression and anxiety etc. were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05). There were no statistical differences during 3 subgroups in the case group (P > 0.05). There were no statistical differences on the day of admission and on the day of discharge (P > 0.05), but there were statistical difference on the day of admission and 3 months after discharge (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study, the psychosomatic states of parents of children with cleft lip/palate is poor. It's important and greatly significant that we conduct early psychological intervention to parents of children with cleft lip/palate and to the children's psychosomatic health.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Administration Office, College of Stomatology, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China.
authors.forename: Yangyang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yanhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Xiuhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip; D002972:Cleft Palate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents