INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Dizziness Handicap Inventory is a useful tool for quantifying self-perceived handicap in patients with vertigo, dizziness or unsteadiness and its impact on daily living activities. The Dizziness Handicap Inventory identifies functional, physical and emotional disorders related to balance disturbance. Our objective was to cross-culturally adapt the Peninsular Span...

background: dizziness as a common symptom affecting many aspects of the patient’s life and it is hard to be fully evaluated. the dizziness handicap inventory (dhi) is a reliable self-perceived questionnaire in the evaluation of dizziness impacts. the purposes of this study are translation of the dhi to persian language and measuring its psychometric properties, including face, content, discrimi...

Objective: To investigate whether vestibular rehabilitation for patients with whiplash-associated disorder and dizziness had any effect on balance measures and self-perceived handicap. Design: Randomized, controlled trial. Subjects: Twenty-nine patients, 20 women and 9 men, age range 22 76 years. Methods: The patients were randomized to an intervention group or a control group. The intervention...

background chronic vestibular dysfunction is a frustrating problem in the elderly and can have a tremendous impact on their life, but only a few studies are available. vestibular rehabilitation therapy (vrt) is an important therapeutic option for the neuro-otologist in treating patients with significant balance deficits. objectives the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of vestibula...

Background: impact of dizziness on life quality (LQ). Aim: to adapt the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) for application in the Brazilian population; to assess its reproducibility; and to describe the results obtained in patients with chronic dizziness. Method: The DHI was initially applied in 45 patients with chronic dizziness and with a clinical diagnosis of vestibular syndrome. The applica...

OBJECTIVE (1) To characterize long-term dizziness following observation, microsurgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for small to medium-sized vestibular schwannoma (VS) using a validated self-assessment inventory; and (2) to identify clinical variables associated with long-term dizziness handicap. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Two independent tertiary acad...

Introduction: The present study was designed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (P-DHI). In addition, this research was targeted toward assessing the association of P-DHI withMedical Outcome Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The current study also involved a co...