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Methods: A prospective cross-sectional, observational, case\u2013control study was carried out, including 506 patients (232 with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease, 79 with vestibular migraine, 34 with vestibular neuritis, and 161 with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). In total, 253 participants were included in the control group. Both groups were comparable regarding age, sex, and history of previous psychiatric diseases. Results: The percentage of patients with vertigo who consumed psychotropic drugs (41.3%) was higher than the percentage of the control group who did so (26.9%) (Fisher\u2019s exact test, p &lt; 0.0001; OR = 1.914, CI95% (1.377; 2.662)). The mean number of psychotropic drugs consumed was also higher (Mann\u2013Whitney test, p = 0.0003) in cases (0.68 \u00b1 0.959) than in controls (0.47 \u00b1 0.889). This higher consumption in the group of patients with vertigo was found for all pharmacological groups studied, being especially relevant regarding \u201canxiolytics and hypnotics and sedatives\u201d and \u201cantidepressants\u201d. No statistically significant differences in the consumption of psychotropic drugs between types of vestibular disorders were observed. The longer the symptoms were present, the higher the prevalence of psychotropic drug use was observed. Conclusions: A relationship between vertigo and consumption of psychotropic drugs was found. Recording the consumption of these drugs is proposed as an objective method to better understand the psychological distress that patients with vertigo may suffer from.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm14082555","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,9]],"date-time":"2025-04-09T03:32:53Z","timestamp":1744169573000},"page":"2555","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Relationship Between Vertigo and Consumption of Psychotropic Drugs: A Prospective Case\u2013Control Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9734-0217","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"In\u00e9s","family":"S\u00e1nchez-Sellero","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Toxicology, Department of Forensic Sciences, Pathology, Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain"},{"name":"Forensic Toxicology Service, Forensic Sciences Institute, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6763-329X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andr\u00e9s","family":"Soto-Varela","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurotology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialities, School of Medicine, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain"},{"name":"Health Research Institute of Santiago (IDIS), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"865","DOI":"10.1007\/s00405-015-3638-1","article-title":"Disability perception in Meni\u00e8re\u2019s disease: When, how much and why?","volume":"273","year":"2016","journal-title":"Eur. 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