Abstract: Objective　To evaluate the psychological situations of cleft lip and/or palate children′s parents, to discuss the rela- tionship between psychological situations and cleft types, and to provide clinical treatment to improve the psychological situations of these parents.Methods　100 parents whose children were proceeded the primary surgery treatment were selected as the study group, and other 34 parents whose children were normal as the control group. All parents were inquired and tested by the life event scale (LES) and self-rating anxiety scale (SAS).Results　The LES total scores of the cleft lip and/or palate patients′par- entswere significantly high compared with the normal (P<0·05). The SAS total scores of the cleft lip and/or palate patients′ parents had no significant differencewiththe control group (P>0·05). The scores of cleft lip and/or palate patients′parentswere the highest and the scores of cleft palate patients′parents were the lowest.Conclusion　Most of the cleft 1ip and/or palate pa- tients′parents were disturbed by a negative psychological situation. Some kind of negative psychological situation may manifest some body symptoms.Meanwhile,the three subgroups′data had the significant difference,which indicated that parents may much more care about the appearance abnormality.

Key words: cleft 1ip and palate, parents, psychological situations