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[The psychological analysis of patients with tinnitus]
Qing Cai1, Jun Li, Zezhang Tao
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, People's Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430060, China.
Objective:
To investigate the psychological factor of tinnitus and assess the possible influenced aspects.
Method:
To inspect the 95 cases with tinnitus by SCL-90, the 9 items were divided to 10 factors and compared to the Chinese normalizations.
Result:
There were significant difference between 4 factors including: somatization, depression, anxiety, compel symptom and normalization (P<0.05). There were correlation between the emotion, age and educational level and psychological dysfunction of tinnitus.
Conclusion:
Psychoprophylaxis is the important factors to tinnitus, and the major influenced aspects are age, educational level and emotional stability.
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