A pre- and post-treatment study of quality of life in patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To explore the effect of canalith repositioning procedure (CRP) on the quality of life (QOL) in patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo(BPPV).@*METHOD@#The clinical data of 86 patients with BPPV (treatment group) and 120 normal ones (control group) were reviewed through the medical outcomes study short form (SF-36)and the dizziness handicap inventory (DHI), and the results of two groups were analyzed.@*RESULT@#With SF-36 scales for evaluation of QOL, the results showed that the scores of treatment group before CRP were significantly lower than that of the control group (P 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#CRP may obviously improve the clinical symptom of BPPV patients. The SF-36 and DHI scales could reflect the change of BPPV patient's QOL.