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Adolescents with cleft lip and palate (CLP): Stressful events and coping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

P. Pacheco ,
M. Pacheco ,
D. Molini-Avejonas  and
A. Mota-Loss
P. Pacheco*
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Science, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
M. Pacheco
Affiliation:
Morphology, UFES, Espirito Santo, Brazil
D. Molini-Avejonas
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Science, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
A. Mota-Loss
Affiliation:
Morphology, UFES, Espirito Santo, Brazil Speech Language Pathology And Audiology, UFES, Espirito Santo, Brazil
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Individuals with CLP may present communication disorders, velopharyngeal dysfunction, dento-occlusal changes and hearing losses. Adolescents with CLP usually show greater impairment of communication. Such characteristics combined with the malformed face can impact psychosocial functioning and increase the risk of psychological difficulties. Life-stressing experiences from CLP to life events typical of adolescence, may threaten the well-being of the adolescent, and are linked to mental health and behavioral problems.

Objectives

To verify the coping of adolescents with CLP through a descriptive cross - sectional study.

Methods

Fifteen adolescents with CLP participated in the study. To evaluate them it was used the Coping scale (Lees, 2007), for the verification of coping in the families proposed by Motivational Theory of Coping. The analysis of the coping of adolescents with CLP considered two adverse contexts, namely “birth with fissure” and “have your secret told by a friend ”.

Results

In relation to the evaluation of the psychological needs of relationship, competence and autonomy faced the “birth with fissure” indicates that teens with fissures do not perceive this stressor as a threat to their basic psychological needs.

Conclusions

The adolescents with CLP who participated in the study feel more interested (perception of the challenge) in dealing with the stressor relative to the fissure than in dealing with the betrayal of a friend, who reveals a secret of his to other people.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Cleft lip and palateadolescencecopingstress
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S731
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