[The psychological analysis of patients with tinnitus].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the psychological factor of tinnitus and assess the possible influenced aspects.


METHODS
To inspect the 95 cases with tinnitus by SCL-90, the 9 items were divided to 10 factors and compared to the Chinese normalizations.


RESULTS
There were significant difference between 4 factors including: somatization, depression, anxiety, compel symptom and normalization (P<0.05). There were correlation between the emotion, age and educational level and psychological dysfunction of tinnitus.


CONCLUSIONS
Psychoprophylaxis is the important factors to tinnitus, and the major influenced aspects are age, educational level and emotional stability.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, People's Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430060, China.
Qing
Q
Cai
Jun
J
Li
Zezhang
Z
Tao
Zhiwu
Z
Huang
Zhelan
Z
Ma
Yongmao
Y
Cao
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000523:psychology*