@article{ref1,
title="Disability and anxiety in vestibular diseases: a cross-sectional study",
journal="Curēus",
year="2020",
author="Hoseinabadi, Reza and Bayat, Arash and Sanayi, Roya and Saki, Nader",
volume="12",
number="11",
pages="e11813-e11813",
abstract="Introduction Patients with dizziness and vertigo usually experience psychological, physical, and social functioning limitations that may affect their daily living  activities. In order to better understand disability and anxiety in patients with  vertigo, in the present study we aimed to investigate the correlation between  disability and anxiety in four different types of diseases causing vertigo. Moreover, the difference between the observed disabilities in these etiologies of  vertigo was studied. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS In this analytic cross-sectional design,  130 patients (52 male, 78 female; age range: 18-75 years) with dizziness/vertigo who  were referred to our balance clinic participated. All patients underwent a detailed  diagnostic procedure including neurological, clinical, and otological evaluations. Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were used to  assess handicap and anxiety, respectively. <br><br>RESULTS There were no significant  differences in &quot;total DHI&quot; and DHI subcomponent scores among different study  populations (p>0.05). In terms of the BAI score, the one-way analysis of variance  (ANOVA) test indicated no significant differences among the four groups (p=0.158). Our results exhibited a significant positive correlation between the BAI and &quot;total  DHI&quot; and &quot;DHI subcomponents&quot; values. <br><br>CONCLUSION The degree of disability and anxiety  is not different between patients with Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV),  Meniere's disease (MD), unilateral weakness (UW), and central causes. The  significant positive correlation between the BAI and &quot;total DHI&quot; and  &quot;DHI subcomponents&quot; values shows that the possibility of anxiety in patients with  vertigo should not be ignored.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-8184",
doi="10.7759/cureus.11813",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11813"
}