Objective To provide basis for effects of an early psychological intervention on parents of children with cleft lip/palate, and investigate the effects of an early psychological intervention to them.Methods One selfadministered questionnaire（SCL-90） was applied in 102 parents of children with cleft lip/palate, compared to 126 parents of healthy individuals on the day of admission. They were given the psychological intervention during hospitalization and 3 months after discharge. The questionnaire（SCL-90） was again applied to them on the day of discharge and 3 months after discharge.Results Using the questionnaire（SCL-90）, the answer scores of somatization, obsessivecompulsive, depression and anxiety etc. were significantly higher than those of the control group（PConclusion In this study, the psychosomatic states of parents of children with cleft lip/palate is poor. It’s important and greatly significant that we conduct early psychological intervention to parents of children with cleft lip/palate and to the children’s psychosomatic health.
