Quantitative Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders in Intractable Peripheral Vertiginous Patients: A Prospective Study.

Objective: To investigate the correlation between psychological disorder and vestibular dysfunction in patients suffering from intractable peripheral vertigo. Study Design: Prospective study. Setting: In-patients in a university hospital. Methods: Prospective design of 26 intractable peripheral vertiginous patients with peripheral vestibular dysfunction and 20 controls recruited from the EENT hospital. Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, Self-rating Anxiety scale, Self-rating Depression scale, Symptom Checklist-90 were used in this study. All vertigo patients received intratympanic gentamicin/dexamethasone administration or endolymphatic sac decompression. Pre- and posttreatment scores were collected and compared. All the results were statistically analyzed using Stata 8.0. t test or rank-sum test and paired-sample t test or rank-sum test were performed. Results: The outcomes of Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, Self-rating Anxiety scale, Self-rating Depression scale, Symptom Checklist-90 were significantly greater in vertiginous group than that in normal controls (p 0.05). Conclusion: Increased anxiety/depression levels were noted in peripheral vertiginous patients compared with normal controls through psychiatric questionnaires, and then a significant decrease after the effective treatment of vertigo, suggesting that vertigo attack may contribute to psychological dysfunction. The intervention seemed to be more effective in lowering anxiety/depression levels among patients in earlier stage of Meniere's disease marked by pure-tone audiometry results. Copyright (C) 2016 by Otology & Neurotology, Inc. Image copyright (C) 2010 Wolters Kluwer Health/Anatomical Chart Company

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