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## Objective: We evaluated what german-speaking women in berlin know about umbilical cord blood banking (ucbb) and whether a correlation exists between women's knowledge about ucbb and level of education. ## Method: We used the anonymous questionnaire given to german-speaking women in berlin, germany. ## Results: A total of 300 questionnaires could be evaluated. although three quarters of our population heard of ucbb, most had no further knowledge about the method. only about one-third of the interviewed women were informed about whether certain diseases had been treated with umbilical cord blood (ucb) by the time the survey was being conducted, whereas 50-65% did not know how to answer these questions. ## Conclusion: Women in berlin were poorly educated about the usefulness, the costs and the methods of cryopreservation. to some extent there is a correlation between women's level of education and their knowledge regarding ucb.

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Author

Patricia E. Palten; Joachim W. Dudenhausen

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)