| 【】 Objective To explore the current status of depression in patients with vestibular neuritis and its relationship with vestibular symptoms and quality of life.Methods The study included 86 patients with vestibular neuritis who were hospitalized in the Department of Neurology of Mianyang TheThird People"s Hospital from June 2011 to June 2023. All patients were scored by a full-time clinicians through the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD). The results were divided into depression group and non-depression group. The dizziness assessmentrating scale (DARS) was used to evaluate the patients" vestibular-related clinical symptoms;the medical outcomes study health survey short form-36 Item (SF-36) and thedizziness handicap inventory (DHI) were used to evaluate the patients" quality of life. The general information, DARS score, DHI score, and SF-36 score of the two groups of patients were compared, and the correlation between HAMD score and DARS score, DHI score, and SF-36 score was analyzed.Results Depression score screening of 86 patients with vestibular neuritis showed that 46 patients were depressed. The differences in age, duration of disease, and years of education between the depressed group and the non-depressed group were statistically significant (P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in gender and vestibular neuritis type between the two groups (P>0.05); the DARS score and DHI score of the depression group were higher than the non-depression group, and the SF-36 health survey score was lower than the non-depression group, and the difference was statistically significant. (P<0.05); the HAMD score in the depression group has a positive correlation with the DARS score and the DHI score, and a negative correlation with the SF-36 health survey score (P<0.05).Conclusion Depression is common in patients with vestibular neuritis, and depression can aggravate vestibular-related symptoms, affect daily life, and reduce quality of life. |