Living with dizziness impacts health-related quality of life among older adults
© 2023 The Authors. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Triological Society..
Objective: This study aimed to compare older adults reporting dizziness to those not reporting dizziness regarding health-related quality of life (HRQL), distress due to dizziness, and balance confidence. A secondary aim was to investigate potential association between HRQL, number of falls, balance confidence, and distress due to dizziness.
Methods: Patients coming for bone density measurements answered questions regarding occurrence of dizziness. Patients reporting dizziness on a daily or weekly basis were considered eligible and invited for investigation at the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic at Södra Älvsborg Hospital, Sweden. Patients not reporting dizziness were considered eligible as controls. All patients answered the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Activity Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-scale), and Euro-QoL-5D-3L questionnaires.
Results: A total of 55 dizzy patients came for physical investigation and answered the questionnaires and 47 non-dizzy participants only answered the questionnaires. The dizzy participants reported lower levels of balance confidence, lower HRQL, more prior falls, and higher levels of distress due to dizziness than the non-dizzy controls. Lower levels of balance confidence and higher level of distress due to dizziness were each associated with lower HRQL.
Conclusion: Dizziness, unsteadiness, and low balance confidence are associated with HRQL in a negative way. This is important to consider when measuring HRQL in a senior population, since a sensation of unsteadiness may indirectly contribute to low HRQL together with other symptoms.
Level of evidence: 2b.
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9 |
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Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology - 9(2024), 1 vom: 26. Feb., Seite e1194 |
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Lindell, Ellen [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 17.02.2024 published: Electronic-eCollection Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.1002/lio2.1194 |
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| 520 | |a Objective: This study aimed to compare older adults reporting dizziness to those not reporting dizziness regarding health-related quality of life (HRQL), distress due to dizziness, and balance confidence. A secondary aim was to investigate potential association between HRQL, number of falls, balance confidence, and distress due to dizziness | ||
| 520 | |a Methods: Patients coming for bone density measurements answered questions regarding occurrence of dizziness. Patients reporting dizziness on a daily or weekly basis were considered eligible and invited for investigation at the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic at Södra Älvsborg Hospital, Sweden. Patients not reporting dizziness were considered eligible as controls. All patients answered the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Activity Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-scale), and Euro-QoL-5D-3L questionnaires | ||
| 520 | |a Results: A total of 55 dizzy patients came for physical investigation and answered the questionnaires and 47 non-dizzy participants only answered the questionnaires. The dizzy participants reported lower levels of balance confidence, lower HRQL, more prior falls, and higher levels of distress due to dizziness than the non-dizzy controls. Lower levels of balance confidence and higher level of distress due to dizziness were each associated with lower HRQL | ||
| 520 | |a Conclusion: Dizziness, unsteadiness, and low balance confidence are associated with HRQL in a negative way. This is important to consider when measuring HRQL in a senior population, since a sensation of unsteadiness may indirectly contribute to low HRQL together with other symptoms | ||
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