Quantitative analysis of psychiatric disorders in patients with intractable Meniere's disease / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the correlation between psychological disorder and vestibular dysfunction in patients suffering from peripheral vertigo.@*METHOD@#Retrospective review of 17 peripheral vertiginous patients with intractable Meniere's disease recruited from the EENT hospital whom underwent intratympanic gentamicin injection. Hospital anxiety and depression scale, self-rating anxiety scale, self-rating depression scale, symptom checklist-90 were used in this study. Pre- and postoperative scores where compared.@*RESULT@#The vertigo control rate of 17 patients reached 88%, with hearing impairment noted only in 17.6% of the patients. 33.3% of the preoperative tinnitus patients and 76.9% of the preoperative aural fullness patients had their symptoms relieved respectively. The outcomes of hospital anxiety and depression scale, self-rating anxiety scale, self-rating depression scale, symptom checklist-90 are significantly greater in vertiginous group than that in normal controls (P 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#Significant differences were noted between peripheral vertiginous patients and normal controls in psychiatric questionnaires, suggesting that psychological dysfunction may contribute to the vertigo attack.