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Emotional Disturbance in Hearing Clinic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Burt Singerman ,
Erwin Riedner  and
Marshal Folstein
Burt Singerman
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine
Erwin Riedner
Affiliation:
Ithaca College
Marshal Folstein
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Osier 320, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Summary

A group of outpatients scheduled for hearing evaluation were screened for psychiatric morbidity using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30). There was an association between objective hearing loss and elevated GHQ-30 score. An association was also found between the presence of tinnitus and vestibular symptoms and elevated GHQ-30 score.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 137 , Issue 1 , June 1980 , pp. 58 - 62
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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