Objective: To determine quality of life of parents of children with cleft lip and palate and to compare it with parents of non cleft lip and palate children.
Method: World Health Organisation Quality of Life (Bref, Field Trial version,1996) for parents of children with cleft lip and palate. Total of 40 parents were questioned, 20 were parents of CLP chidren and the other 20 were parents of non cleft children.
Results: The scores of quality of life for parents of the cleft children were significantly lower than the parents of non-cleft children.
Conclusion: The parents of children with clefts had a lower Quality of Life score as compared to the parents of children with no clefts.
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