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Chronic rhinosinusitis is an inflammatory process involving the sinonasal mucosa, lasting 12 weeks or longer. It is often characterized by a complex of debilitating symptoms usually classified into minor and major symptoms. Estimating symptom/ disease severity using structured questionnaires can be...
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| 001 | oai:repository.ui.edu.ng:123456789/9263 | ||
| 042 | |a dc | ||
| 720 | |a Idugboe, O. J. |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Adeyemo, A. A. |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Totyen, E. L. |e author | ||
| 260 | |c 2019 | ||
| 520 | |a Chronic rhinosinusitis is an inflammatory process involving the sinonasal mucosa, lasting 12 weeks or longer. It is often characterized by a complex of debilitating symptoms usually classified into minor and major symptoms. Estimating symptom/ disease severity using structured questionnaires can be challenging. This is especially so in rural areas where a combination of low literacy levels and language barrier may present communication difficulties. In view of the aforementioned challenges, it has become imperative to explore the correlation between the 22- item sino-nasal outcome test (SNOT-22) and a simpler means of evaluating symptom severity in chronic rhinosinusitis; hence this study. To determine the correlation between SNOT-22 and visual analogue scale (VAS) questionnaire scoring of symptom severity in chronic rhinosinusitis. This was a twelve month prospective cross sectional study of fifty- two consecutive newly diagnosed adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Age of patients ranged from 19 – 91 years. Male to female ratio was 1: 1.26. There was a significant positive correlation between VAS and SNOT-22 in moderate and high symptom severity in patients with CRS. This study found a positive correlation between SNOT-22 and VAS scoring of disease severity in moderate and severe diseases and an insignificant correlation between these two instruments in mild disease. VAS can be used as a guide to symptom severity in the pre-treatment patients with CRS | ||
| 024 | 8 | |a 2472-2405 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a ui_art_idugboe_correlation_2019 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a International Journal of Otorhinolaryngology 5(1), 2019. Pp. 24-30 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9263 | |
| 653 | |a Chronic rhinosinusitis | ||
| 653 | |a Sinonasal outcome Test-22 | ||
| 653 | |a Visual analogue scale | ||
| 653 | |a Symptoms | ||
| 653 | |a Severity | ||
| 653 | |a Low literacy | ||
| 653 | |a Language barrier | ||
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a The correlation between snot-22 and visual analogue scale in the assessment of symptom severity in chronic rhinosinusitis |