Quality of Life of Adopted Chinese Versus Nonadopted Dutch Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis ...

ObjectiveTo examine quality of life in internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) versus non-adopted children with CL/P.DesignCross sectional study.SettingMultidisciplinary cleft team of a secondary and tertiary hospital in the Netherlands.MethodsParents of children under the age of 8 treated by the multidisciplinary cleft team of our institutions were asked to fill out a questionnaire containing demographic and clinical data and a validated parent proxy measure of cleft-specific quality of life instrument for children aged 0–8: the CleftChild-8. Adopted children were... Mehr ...