Quality of life, social function, emotion, and facial paresis in Dutch vestibular schwannoma patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The present study aimed to replicate the finding that vestibular schwannoma (VS) patients with facial paresis experience lower health related quality of life (QoL) than those without facial paresis in a Dutch sample, and to extend these findings by measuring VS patients' overall satisfaction with life, social function, and emotion.

Methods

Forty-seven VS patients, differing in degree of facial functioning, half of them with and half of them without a facial paresis, answered questionnaires about health related QoL (SF-36 and PANQOL), overall satisfaction with life, fear of being evaluated negatively by others, social avoidance and distress, and characteristics and symptoms of depression.

Results

We observed that VS patients with facial paresis experience lo

SUBMITTER: Blom SSAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7314489 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature