title: [Quantitative analysis of psychiatric disorders in patients with intractable Meniere's disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the correlation between psychological disorder and vestibular dysfunction in patients suffering from peripheral vertigo.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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. 01). The preoperative scores of these 4 questionnaires are greater than the postoperative scores in vertiginous patients (P < 0.05). No significant difference was noted between male and female participants in all the questionnaires used (P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant differences were noted between peripheral vertiginous patients and normal controls in psychiatric questionnaires, suggesting that psychological dysfunction may contribute to the vertigo attack.
authors: Department of Otology and Skull Base Surgery, Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, Fudan University,Shanghai, 200031, China.
authors: Feng
authors: F
authors: Zhai
authors: Manyun
authors: M
authors: Yan
authors: Guoming
authors: G
authors: Zhang
authors: Chunfu
authors: C
authors: Dai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014717:Vertigo / Q000523:psychology