1. Quality of life of patients with cleft lip palate in east Indonesia
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Tymour Forouzanfar, Muhammad Ruslin, and KJ Li
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lcsh:RK1-715 ,Cleft lip palate ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Lip palate cleft, Indonesia, Quality of life ,business.industry ,lcsh:Dentistry ,Medicine ,Dentistry ,business - Abstract
In patients with a cleft, the lip as well as the palate can be involved. According to Rocher et al(2010) it presents the majority of congenital malformations in the craniofacial aria. It’s prevalence and appearance depends on the ethnicity, socio-economic state and the geographic location. In the Western world the prevalence is estimated on 1 in 650, and in Asia 1 in 440. As facial disfiguration can influence enormously the quality of life it is of utmost interest to investigate the influence of surgical treatment on quality of life in patient with a cleft lip and palate. The aim of this study is to do compare the quality of life before and after surgery of cleft lip and palate in East Indonesia.The patients are collected by local dentists, which mostly will be found in rural areas of the Island of Celebes and East-Borneo. Patients are asked to fill questionnaires themselves and by their parents. The questionnaires of patients from 11 years and less will be filled in by their parents. The questionnaire used is the COHIP: Child Oral Health Impact Profile.The questionnaires will be collected and converted by SPSS 20.0 for data processing. The data will all be taken on a nominal level, so the Mann Whitney U test will be used to compare the groups on 1 variable. The discrepancy between the scores pre- and post-surgery will be compared with a Wilcoxon signed rank test.
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- 2016