Neuropsychiatric symptoms, quality of sleep and quality of life in patients diagnosed with nasal septal deviation.

OBJECTIVES

This study aims to evaluate the psychiatric symptoms, quality of sleep, quality of life and the predictive factors affecting quality of sleep in patients diagnosed with nasal septal deviation (NSD).

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

Forty male patients (mean age 22.3±1.4 years; range 21 to 26 years) who admitted to the otorhinolaryngology (ORL) clinic of the Ağrı Military Hospital and diagnosed with NSD as a result of a through ORL examination between February 2009 and April 2009 and 36 healthy volunteer (mean age 21.7±1.0 years; range 21 to 25 years) controls, were included in this study. Pre- and postoperative evaluations were performed using the Quality of Life Scale (Short Form-36/SF-36), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Symptom Check List Revised (SCL-90-R).

RESULTS

All patients and controls completed pre- and postoperative evaluations. No complications occurred. There was a statistically significant difference between the groups in the quality of sleep measures, in the SCL-90-R subscales of somatization, obsession, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, hostility, paranoid thought, and psychoticism, additional scales and in physical health dimension of SF-36 Quality of Life Scale.

CONCLUSION

Psychiatric symptoms are more common in patients with nasal septal deviation when compared to healthy controls. The impairments in nasal breathing in patients with NSD may cause a decline in the physical dimension of quality of life and a marked impairment in sleep quality.