Psychotropic drug use in adolescents born with an orofacial cleft: a population-based study.

Summary, in English

Being born with an orofacial cleft (OFC) can, due to an incomplete closure of the lip and/or palate, convey a deviant speech and/or deviant facial aesthetics, which may in turn increase the risk for poor psychological health later in life. Previous investigations have been based on small samples and self-reports, not distinguishing between the three different types of OFC: cleft lip (CL), CL and palate (CLP) and cleft palate only (CPO). We present a large population-based study, considering psychotropic drug use as a proxy for poor psychological health and distinguishing between three different types of OFC.

• Author: Sofia Nilsson; Juan Merlo; Viveka Lyberg Åhlander; Elia Psouni
• Department/s: Social Epidemiology; Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology; Department of Psychology; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: BMJ Open
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Full text: - 766 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838502?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005306
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Topic: Psychology; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Project: Vulnerability from Handicap: Adolescent Mental Health using Epidemiological Data; Social Pharmacoepidemiology
• Research group: Social Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2044-6055