To Study the Characteristics of Different Types of Vertigo in Patients Attending the Ear Nose & Throat (ENT) Clinics.

To Study the Characteristics of Different Types of Vertigo in Patients Attending the ENT Clinics.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02213120

Acronym

VERTIGO

Enrollment

400

Registered

2014-08-11

Start date

2014-08-31

Completion date

2015-03-31

Last updated

2015-05-28

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Conditions

Vertigo

Keywords

Vertigo, Dizziness

Brief summary

The VERTIGO study is likely to help determine characteristics of different types of vertigo in patients presenting in the Ear Nose & Throat (ENT) clinics with complaints of dizziness. Moreover, it will also help to develop an understanding about the current management practices of this condition at local level.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Male or female patients 18 years of age and older * Patients with vestibular vertigo of known or unknown origin * Patients who are willing and able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

* Patients with any condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, makes the patient unsuitable for inclusion based on clinical judgment * Patient with psychiatric disorders, significant neurological disorder or spinal cord damage that would make the evaluation difficult for the investigator * Patients who are not willing to give informed consent * Patients with a known history of hypersensitivity to betahistine * Patients with a history of pheochromocytoma

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Characteristics (Different Types) of dizziness	6 months	It will be determined that a patient with dizziness is suffering from what type of Vertigo i.e. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, Menier's Disease, Vestibular Neuritis, Labyrinthitis or any other. As these are clinical types of Vertigo these cannot be measured in units

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Quality of Life (QoL) of patients at baselines	6 months	Dizziness Handicap Inventory will be used
Management of vertigo currently in practice	6 months	As per practice of the physician/Investigator. Management of Vertigo is either by certain maneuvers such as Epley's and Simont or by medications. For the maneuvers, no unit can be defined. The information for medication which will be collected will be Name (preferably the generic name), Dose, Units (form of the medicine), Route and Frequency.
QoL of patients post treatment	6 months	Dizziness Handicap Inventory will be used

Countries

Pakistan

Outcome results