It is to be expected that cleft lip and palate patients are affected both mentally and physically by their disfigurement and speech difficulties.
The authors decided to study how this disorder affected the personality of patients in their late teens, using an egogram from an independent standpoint prior to recheiloplasty in 200 cleft lip and palate patients.
(100 males and 100 females)
Furthermore, we administered the same tests to 500 normal young men and women (250 each) and there were taken to be control groups.
1. Cleft lip and palate male patients received high marks on CP, A, AC, in 5 division egograms (P<0.01). Females received low marks in A and FC (p<0.01).
2. According to egogram, male patients were rather unorganized, lacking in harmony, and somewhat selfish, but, were sympathetic towards others.
Female patients found it difficult to express discontent with their surroundings, allowed frustration to build up inside them and found it easier to do something about their surroundings in silence.
