Postoperative Depression of Patients with Meniere Disease and the Relationships to Vertigo and the Improvement of Quality of Life / 听力学及言语疾病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the depression of patients with Meniere disease after surgery ,and the relationships to vertigo and the improvement of the quality of life .Methods A total of 46 patients with Meniere dis-ease and 95 patients with other diseases of otorhinolaryngology (as control) were enrolled in this retrospective stud-y .They underwent operations between 2013 and 2015 .They finished self -rating depression scales ,Meniere dis-ease outcomes questionaire by snail mail .They were asked about the frequencies of vertigo before and after surgery . The gender ,age and postoperative course in the control group were matched to those of in the Meniere group .The relationships among vertigo ,the improvement of the quality of life and postoperative depression were compared .Re-sults In the Meniere group ,69 .77％ of patients did not have depression ,while 13 .95％ were with mild depres-sion ,16 .28％ with moderate ,none with severe .Depression was more severe in the Meniere group than in the con-trol group .There were no obvious linear relationships between vertigo and depression or between quality of life and depression .There was no statistical difference in depression of patients with different vertigo frequencies .Conclusion There is still a certain degree of postoperative depression in near 30％ of patients with Meniere disease after sur-gery .This may not be related to vertigo nor the quality of life .