Clinical and cost effectiveness of booklet based vestibular rehabilitation for chronic dizziness in primary care: single blind, parallel group, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of booklet based vestibular rehabilitation with and without telephone support for chronic dizziness, compared with routine care.

Design

Single blind, parallel group, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

35 general practices across southern England between October 2008 and January 2011.

Participants

Patients aged 18 years or over with chronic dizziness (mean duration >five years) not attributable to non-vestibular causes (confirmed by general practitioner) and that could be aggravated by head movement (confirmed by patient).

Interventions

Participants randomly allocated to receive routine medical care, booklet based vestibular rehabilitation only, or booklet based vestibular rehabilitat

SUBMITTER: Yardley L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3368486 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature