[Disability and vestibular pathology].
OBJECTIVE
To probe the ability in differentiate the handicap degree among patients with peripheral vestibular illness by means of a questionnaire carefully thought with this purpose.


METHODS
Prospective study covering 2 years (May 1st. 1991 till May the 1st. 1996). FIELD OF STUDY: Patients from the Health Area of Zamora, ambulatory attended at Otolaryngology Department, complaining of peripheral vestibular troubles. INDIVIDUALS INCLUDED: 60 patients diagnosed as paroxitic positional vertigo or Ménière's disease, lasting the discomfort either 6 weeks or less or 2 years or more, the totality split into 4 groups, of 15 individuals each. SCORING: Analysis of the performed scores of the first valuation by means of the Questionnaire for Assessment of the Disability in Vestibular Pathology (Q.A.D.V.P.). Descriptive statistics were performed for each group and each scale.


RESULTS
Patients with more than 2 years of evolvement present themselves, usually, with higher scores in both emotional and functional scales if compared with those resulting from patients suffering from paroxistic positional vertigo.


CONCLUSIONS
The Q.A.D.V.P. is a measure instrument very useful, by allowing the differentiation of several degrees of disabled people of our studied samples.
Pardal Refoyo
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Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora. MSPELAEZ49@mail ocefis.ucn.es
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires