Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patient Presenting with Tinnitus in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India

Ashutosh Alakh Abinashi; Pankaj Gupta; Ashvanee Kumar Chaudhary; Vishwambhar Singh

doi:10.1007/s12070-020-01957-z

Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patient Presenting with Tinnitus in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Dec;74(Suppl 3):3576-3577. doi: 10.1007/s12070-020-01957-z. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Authors

Ashutosh Alakh Abinashi¹, Pankaj Gupta², Ashvanee Kumar Chaudhary³, Vishwambhar Singh³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Government Medical College, Azamgarh, India.
² Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Abstract

Aims and objectives of this study is to know the different psychiatric disorders in patients complaining tinnitus. Subjects are selected from the patients visiting to the ENT opd. 100 patients are selected for the study. They were given to fill the tinnitus handicap inventory in Hindi. Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder in the tinnitus patients. Other psychological disorders are insomnia, personality disorder, depression, psychosis, body concept disorder.

Keywords: Hindi; Psychiatric; Tinnitus; Tinnitus handicap inventory.