MEASUREMENT OF CORRELATION BETWEEN DIZZINESS HANDICAPPED INVENTORY AND PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF MENIERES DISEASE

Background: Menieres Disease (MD) is a chronic, non-life threatening inner ear disease, with attacks of disabling vertigo, progressive hearing loss, and tinnitus as the major symptoms. All three symptoms, separately or in combination, cause great distress have considerable impact on quality life patients. Objective: Aim this study was to find out whether subjective assessment objective will be significant towards diagnosis early disease by comparision between Dizziness Handicapped Inventory (DHI) & Pure tone audiometry. Materials Methods: This hospital-based retrospective carried at Al Ameen Medical College Hospital, Vijayapur, Karnataka, India. The population composed 93 subjects referred audiology department ENT Hospital 01 year period, May 2021 April 2022. underwent following diagnostic procedures: Collecting detailed clinical history, complete neuro-otological bedside examination pure-tone inclusion criteria are presence symptoms compatible MD (tinnitus, loss vertigo) associated documented unilateral sensorineural loss. exclusion are: incomplete presentation conductive, mixed retrocochlear presentation, characterized vertigo syndromes that not for features duration MD. Other tympanic perforations, active infections, inflammatory non-inflammatory stenosis (exostoses, osteomas). handicapped inventory utilized whereas audiometry disease. In DHI questionnaire, patient answered yes, sometimes no each question strength responses were designated numeric values 0, 2, 4. questionnaire had 25 items, such total score ranges from 0 100, higher indicating handicap. relevant data collected using pre-tested pro-forma after collection it entered Microsoft Excel maintain data. Result:In our study, Forty-five (48.4%) patients male, 48 (51.6%) female mean age 48.9±12.1 years. 5.6±4.7 (min: 10 months max: 14 years) years.The means 0.5-2 kHz air conduction thresholds (dB HL) Pathological Healthy 46.8±21.4 15.6±13.9, respectively. Speech discrimination scores (%) 71.5±23.6 93.7±6.3, Physical subscore, Emotional subscore Functional per Handicap among 15.93±8.91, 7.3±4.78 16.62±8.85, all items 38.8±19.5. Conclusion: There relationship pure some variables. As part follow-up tool MD, valid, reliable health-related, disease-specific QoL scale.