title: [Immediate prediction of recovery, based on emotional impact of vertigo].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This work presents deeper studies of comorbidity between anxiety and vestibular pathology. The aim of this work was to comprehend the reasons why patients do not feel «fully recovered» even though the treating professionals discharge them. We studied the features of personality that can favour the continuity of the condition.
  
  
  METHODS
  The questionnaire for measuring the emotional impact of vertigo makes it possible to determine if the patient has a psychological style with a tendency to develop pathological anxiety levels. Anxiety is a subjective characteristic determinant in difficulties with medical treatment. The questionnaire was applied to 198 patients in Argentina and Mexico in parallel. Each pathology was treated by standard medical procedures. The study focused on determining the correlation between «feeling fully recovered or not at the end of treatment» and the questionnaire scores obtained before the approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In more than 80% of cases, high scores (>15 points) on the questionnaire were correlated with the difficulty presented by the patients for full recovery from the pathology after medical treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The objective assessments (duration and intensity of symptoms, time of onset of the disease, etc.) do not exactly predict possible difficulties during treatment of vertigo. Consequently, we consider the patient's subjective assessment of how the vestibular pathology affects him or her to be determinant. That key information allows us to predict the course of the illness and the probability of a full recovery.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Terapias Cognitivas, (CETEPO) Buenos Aires, Instituto de Neurociencias San Lucas, Rosario, Argentina. Electronic address: adallago@usal.es.
authors.forename: Andrés H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Dal-Lago
authors.affiliation: Centro Médico ABC, Campus Santa Fe, México, D.F., México.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ceballos-Lizarraga
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Servicio de Neuro-otología del Instituto de Neurociencias de Buenos Aires (INEBA), Capital Federal, Argentina, Instituto de Neurociencias San Lucas, Rosario, Argentina.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carmona
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014717:Vertigo / Q000523:psychology*; D015837:Vestibular Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Ansiedad; Anxiety; Cognitive psychology; Neurootología; Neuropsicología; Neuropsychology; Neurotology; Psicología cognitiva; Vertigo; Vértigo