Self-reported anxiety and depression unchanged after endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis
Author(s) -
K.N. Adams,
Theodore A. Schuman,
Charles S. Ebert,
Wei You,
Mohamed Tomoum,
Brent A. Senior
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
rhinology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1996-8604
pISSN - 0300-0729
DOI - 10.4193/rhin17.238
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , anxiety , hospital anxiety and depression scale , chronic rhinosinusitis , quality of life (healthcare) , cohort , functional endoscopic sinus surgery , cohort study , sinusitis , physical therapy , surgery , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Prior research has established that anxiety and depression, as measured by the Hospital Anxiety Depression Score (HADS), are strongly correlated with disease-specific quality of life (Rhinosinusitis Disability Index - RSDI) in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). We hypothesized that anxiety and depression would decrease after functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), and furthermore that HADS would predict improvement in RSDI following surgery.
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