Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) in septorhinoplasty: a useful outcome measure?

Validity of Sinonasal Outcome Test 22 in Assessing Symptomatological Outcome Following Septoplasty in Deviated Nasal Septum

“…26. The study conducted by Dizdar et al10 showed improvement in nasal obstruction by 0.81 and by Goodson et al11 showed improvement of nasal obstruction from 3.56 to 1.57. The other symptoms of SNOT-22 questionnaire such as need to blow nose, sneezing, running nose, loss of smell or taste, cough, postnasal discharge, facial pain, ear pain, ear fullness, difficulty in falling asleep, waking up at night, lack of good night's sleep, waking up tired and fatigue (p< 0.005) has significant improvement.SNOT-22 other symptoms like reduced concentration, frustrated/restless, irritable, sad and dizziness the p-value was not significant, suggesting the decreasing quality of life, and the finding of our study was similar to the study conducted by Satish H.S 12 SNOT-22 symptoms show no any significant.…”