EFFECT OF BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION ON BEAUTY SATISFACTION AFTER STAGED SURGERY AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH ORAL FACIAL CLEFTS.

Oral facial clefts (OFC) among adolescents can pose several significant challenges. Assessing one's contentment with one's appearance following surgery may be useful in identifying young people who may have adjustment issues. Aim - to find the efficacy of the biopsychosocial intervention on beauty satisfaction among adolescents with oral facial clefts surgery. A descriptive survey was conducted among 86 adolescents, selected by simple random technique, who underwent staged surgical procedures for OFC at Charles Pinto Centre for Cleft Lip & Palate in India. Beauty satisfaction was measured by a Four-point rating scale. During the second phase, a Quasi-experimental design was adopted among 10 samples & Seven-day biopsychosocial intervention package was administered after the pretest assessment. Most of the samples have only an average level of beauty satisfaction of 48 (55.8%), whereas a high level of beauty satisfaction was observed only among 24 (27.9%) samples & 14 (16.3%) had a low level. The study also revealed that both genders equally experience dissatisfaction with beauty (P=0.381). F- value for comparing beauty satisfaction among different age groups of adolescents was found to be non-significant at 0.05 level (p=0.253). This depicts that as age increases adolescents are more conscious of their beauty and appearance. The Level of beauty satisfaction has increased after the implementation of the biopsychosocial intervention (p=0.001) at 0.01 level in the second phase, which is in tune with the study findings of Kapp Simon. Counselling and looking at actual facial features can help people accept their looks, according to study results on beauty satisfaction. Thus, a productive line of inquiry into cleft psychosocial research that ascertains the alterations in facial growth and the surgical experience must be assembled through observational, longitudinal, and cross-sectional investigations.