Abstract
It is often said that the quality of life (QOL) of the patients with dizziness declines, however, there have been very few reports in which the fact has been substantiated with an actual scale. In the present study, the QOL of 552 patients, who were admitted to Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital for vestibular rehabilitation, was scaled with the health survey SF-36v2. The results identified a significant decline in comparison with the national norms in all sub-scales of SF-36v2. Our study thus showed that dizziness causes a decline in the QOL for affected subjects in all sub-scales of SF-36v2. Based on our results, we anticipate that the improvement of dizziness with new treatment strategies can be scaled from the viewpoint of QOL in the future.
