Open AccessAttitudes of pregnant women and mothers of children with orofacial clefts toward prenatal diagnosis of nonsyndromic orofacial clefts in a semiurban set-up in India
Author(s) -
Poornima Kadagad,
Pascal X. Pinto,
Rajesh Powar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of plastic surgery/indian journal of plastic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.299
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1998-376X
pISSN - 0970-0358
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0358.90833
Subject(s) - medicine , craniofacial , pregnancy , obstetrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , prenatal diagnosis , pediatrics , fetus , psychiatry , genetics , biology
To assess the attitudes of pregnant women and mothers of children with orofacial clefts toward prenatal diagnosis of clefts and elective termination of pregnancy, and to investigate their opinion about who makes reproductive decisions in the family.