Chronic dizziness patients, stress and depression management should also be combined
Feb 05, 2025
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A research team led by Professor Park Hye-yeon of the Department of Mental Health Medicine at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital revealed the relationship between dizziness and psychological factors through cohort data analysis on the whole nation.
Dizziness is a common symptom that one in three adults experience, and it is a disease that interferes with the daily life of the patient and significantly lowers the quality of life. In particular, without proper treatment, dizziness may develop into chronic dizziness that lasts for more than three months.
In previous studies, gender (female), old age, and the presence or absence of underlying diseases were mainly pointed out as risk factors for dizziness, but studies on the effects of psychological factors such as anxiety disorders and depression on dizziness were insufficient. Accordingly, the research team conducted a study to specifically analyze how psychological factors affect the occurrence and exacerbation of dizziness.
The research team analyzed the data of 4,147 adults over the age of 40 in Korea using the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of dizziness, and among them, 1,102 people who experienced dizziness were further classified for chronic dizziness. Analytical variables included gender, age, health status, sleep time, stress, depressive symptoms, diet and nutritional status, and network analysis techniques were applied to identify patterns of depressive symptoms associated with dizziness.
As a result, dizziness occurred more frequently, especially in women, and was more likely to occur in people with stressful or depressive symptoms in their daily lives. Gender differences were also found. In women, arthritis diagnosis, smoking, stress, and depression were associated with dizziness, whereas in men, age, education level, alcohol consumption, stress, and depression were found to have an effect.
In particular, chronic dizziness lasting more than 3 months was associated with short sleep time of less than 5 hours, high stress and depression levels, in addition to underlying diseases such as eardrum abnormalities and diabetes. This suggests that proper sleep time and psychological factors such as stress or depression are important along with physical treatment for dizziness patients.
In addition, chronic dizziness and general dizziness were found to have different patterns of depressive symptoms. In the case of general dizziness patients, depressive mood itself is a major symptom, but in the case of chronic dizziness patients, physical symptoms such as slowing down or nervousness were noticeable. This means that chronic dizziness goes beyond depressed mood and is associated with physical symptoms related to systemic motor function.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
