Morales ALL, Cárdenas VMI

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: Vertigo is a symptom and not a diagnosis manifested by movement sensations rotating of character, shifts of support base, floor slope, precipitation in a vacuum and the sensation of falling postural when adopting certain postures.
Objectives: To assess the degree of vertigo in daily life from the perspective of the patient through the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI). Besides, to identify the most common type of disability among patients by age group and by associated illness.
Patients and method: A research clinical, observational, cross-sectional, survey and descriptive study was done from June 2009 to June 2010, with 200 patients, in who Dizziness Handicap Inventory was applied.
Results: The average age of patients was 51.65 years (range 14-95 years). The most common diagnoses were benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (30.5%), vascular vertigo (15.5%), multifactorial vertigo (15.5%), metabolic vertigo (13.5%) and Meniere’s disease (13%). Moderate functional disability affected 36% of patients and severe functional disability and moderate physical disability affected 38%, unlike severe physical disability affecting 50%.
Conclusions: Dizziness Handicap Inventory should be used to assess patients with vertigo, to know the quality of life and to establish a multidisciplinary treatment to obtain the maximum benefit. This questionnaire is simple and easy to be applied in consultation and complements the protocol done in patients with vertigo.

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