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- Title
Quality of Life and the Related Factors in Patients with Dizziness.
- Authors
Hyun Jung Lee; Choi-Kwon Smi
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the Quality of Life (QOL) and related factors in the patients with dizziness. Methods: The data were collected between March and June 2008 for 200 individuals who agreed to participate in the study. Uncertainty (Uncertainty in illness scale), anxiety, depression (Hospital anxiety & depression scale) and Vestibular disability activities of daily living (Vestibular disability-activities of daily living [ADL] scale) as well as QOL (Dizziness Handicap Inventory) were measured. Results: The mean QOL score was 37.5 (±23.0). Monthly income, etiology of, frequency of, and total duration of dizziness were the significant factors related to QOL in these patients. Having had a fall, anxiety, depression, uncertainty and vestibular disability in daily living were also significant factors influencing QOL. In multiple regression analysis, anxiety, vestibular disability-ADL, falls, total duration of symptoms, uncertainty, and etiology of dizziness explained 41% of variance of QOL. Conclusion: The level of QOL in our patients was moderate as compared to those in previous studies. Anxiety and vestibular disability were the most important factors predicting low QOL. Use of nursing intervention programs designed to relieve these factors should also result in improving the QOL in the patients with dizziness.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; DIZZINESS; ANXIETY; MENTAL depression; SOCIAL status; SOCIAL accounting
- Publication
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 5, p751
- ISSN
2005-3673
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.4040/jkan.2009.39.5.751