Abstract
Four tests, were administered to three groups of patients : Cornell Medical Index (CMI), Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS), Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Yatabe-Guilford Personality Test (Y-G). Group I contained vertigo patients 65 years of age and older, group II vertigo patients less than 65 years of age, and group III healthy persons 65 years of age and older. The second and third groups served as controls.
1. In group I, CMI, MAS and SDS test results showed significantly more psychosomatic problems than in group III.
2. In group I, CMI, MAS and SDS test results showed more psychosomatic problems than in group II.
3. It is concluded that older patients with vertigo have more psychosomatic problems than do younger patients with vertigo.
