Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2022.71

ARE THE PERSISTENT POSTURAL-PERCEPTUAL DIZZINESS (PPPD) PATIENTS MORE ANXIOUS THAN THE PATIENTS WITH OTHER DIZZINESS?

Sinisa Maslovara orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-8146 ; Department of Otolaryngology, County General and Veterans Hospital Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia ; Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Drazen Begic orcid.org/0000-0001-5852-2053 ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Silva Butkovic-Soldo ; Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Andrijana Vceva ; Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Ivana Pajic-Matic ; Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Anamarija Sestak ; Department of Otolaryngology, County General and Veterans Hospital Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia

Abstract

Background: The Behavioral Subcommittee of the Bárány Society Committee for Classification of Vestibular Disorders recently
established the diagnostic criteria for a persistent postural-perceptive dizziness (PPPD).
Objectives: This study aims to determine how significant the degree of anxiety and depression of PPPD patients is, compared to
the patients with other dizziness.
Subjects and methods: The study was conducted on 78 patients, 39 (50%) of whom suffer from PPPD, and of a control group
consisting of the same number of patients with other types of dizziness. All the patients filled out the DHI and HADS questionnaire
and were subjected to a VNG and VEMP examination.
Results: The DHI showed significant disability in the majority of patients, slightly more in the control group. The HADS showed
an equal degree of anxiety in both groups of patients, but significantly higher pathological anxiety in the PPPD group (49%:31%).
Conclusions: Majority of the patients in both groups experienced mild anxiety, while those with the pathological degree were
more represented in the PPPD group. Depression was more expressed in the group of other dizziness. We can consider only the
patients with a pathological degree of anxiety as predisposed to the emergence of PPPD.

Keywords

persistent postural; perceptual dizziness; anxiety; depression; handicap

Hrčak ID:

276175

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/276175

Publication date:

3.5.2022.

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