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3180496

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-12-22
pubmed:abstractText
A prospective assessment of psychiatric morbidity in a sample of 207 patients with inner ear disorders, attending an ENT clinic, was carried out. As a group, they were found to have higher psychiatric morbidity on the general health questionnaire (GHQ) than either normal samples or samples affected by other forms of physical disease. Within the sample tinnitus patients scored the highest, and presbyacusis patients the lowest. High GHQ scores predicted an exaggerated self-rating of symptom severity in a visual analogue scale. Past psychiatric history did not play a role in the development of psychiatric morbidity. Elderly subjects complained more often of fear of collapsing in the street but this was not related, as has been suggested, to the subsequent development of agoraphobic symptoms. Factor analysis of GHQ items for the 'cases' yielded 'depression', 'anxiety' and 'personality' factors. No correlation was found between these factors and the rest of the clinical variables. It is concluded that tinnitus shows the clearest association with psychiatric morbidity and hence merits detailed psychological analysis. Such a study has been started at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0307-7772
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
259-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-5-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Psychiatric morbidity in subjects with inner ear disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article