An Assessment of Psychological Stress in Patients with Facial Palsy

Abstract

Objectives: Facial palsy may cause excessive stress due to the obviousness of its manifestations. We evaluated psychological stress in patients with facial palsy.Subjects and Methods: Subjects were 57 patients, with Bell's palsy, 12 with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, and 11 with zoster sine herpete. Eighteen of 50 questions from the Psychological Stress Response Scale (PSRS) were selected and used to in a questionnaire completed by each patient on 2 separate occasions the first hospital visit and after recovery from facial palsy. They also completed a second bodily condition questionnaire before and after treatment.Results: The psychological stress response score of patients with facial palsy was high on the first visit. Intermedi-

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