Vestibular findings in bank employees with anxiety disorders
International Journal of Development Research
Vestibular findings in bank employees with anxiety disorders
Received 27th December, 2020; Received in revised form 28th January, 2021; Accepted 06th February, 2021; Published online 15th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Víctor Baldi Faccenda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Working methods restructuring induces changes in population's morbidity profile, making it common the psychiatric and psychological issues to induce functional changes in organs and other organic systems. The aim was to evaluate the behavior of the vestibular system in bank employees with complaints of dizziness, vertigo or instability during walking and diagnosed with anxiety disorders. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study carried out at the otoneurology outpatient clinic. Eighteen medical records of bank employees referred by otorhinolaryngologists or neurologists were evaluated for otoneurological evaluation with diagnosis of anxiety disorders and complaints of dizziness, vertigo or instability during walking, attended between 2015 and 2019. For the statistical analysis, the Difference of Proportions Test was applied, using the Minitab® software, test for a proportion, with 95% CI (p <0.05).In 61.2% of the medical records evaluated, the results of the exams were compatible with vestibular dysfunction. It can be inferred that, in the conditions of the sample of bank employees in this study, the prevalence of vestibular alterations is higher than the prevalence observed in the global population.
