Hyun Jung Lee; Smi Choi-Kwon

doi:10.4040/jkan.2009.39.5.751

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Quality of Life and the Related Factors in Patients with Dizziness: Hyun Jung Lee, Smi Choi-Kwon; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2009;39(5):751-758.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2009.39.5.751
Published online: October 31, 2009

¹Nurse, Dankook University Medical Center, Cheonan, Korea.

²Professor, The Research Institute of Nursing Science College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Choi-Kwon, Smi. College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Tel: 82-2-740-8830, Fax: 82-2-765-4103, smi@snu.ac.kr

• Received: April 24, 2009 • Revised: April 27, 2009 • Accepted: September 30, 2009

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Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Quality of Life (QOL) and related factors in the patients with dizziness.
Methods
The data were collected between March and June 2008 for 200 individuals who agreed to participate in the study. Uncertainty (Uncertainty in illness scale), anxiety, depression (Hospital anxiety & depression scale) and Vestibular disability activities of daily living (Vestibular disability-activities of daily living [ADL] scale) as well as QOL (Dizziness Handicap Inventory) were measured.
Results
The mean QOL score was 37.5 (±23.0). Monthly income, etiology of, frequency of, and total duration of dizziness were the significant factors related to QOL in these patients. Having had a fall, anxiety, depression, uncertainty and vestibular disability in daily living were also significant factors influencing QOL. In multiple regression analysis, anxiety, vestibular disability-ADL, falls, total duration of symptoms, uncertainty, and etiology of dizziness explained 41% of variance of QOL.
Conclusion
The level of QOL in our patients was moderate as compared to those in previous studies. Anxiety and vestibular disability were the most important factors predicting low QOL. Use of nursing intervention programs designed to relieve these factors should also result in improving the QOL in the patients with dizziness.
Keywords: Quality of life; Dizziness; Anxiety; Uncertainty

This article is based on a part of the first author's masters' thesis from Seoul National University.

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Table 1

Quality of Life according to Patients' Demographic and Medical Characteristics & Major Variables (N=200)

^*Post hoc comparison=Scheffe.

V-ADL=vestibular disability activities of daily living.

Table 2

Factors Predicting QOL (N=200)

QOL=quality of life; V-ADL=vestibular disability activities of daily living.

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