Abstract:Objective To investigate emotion, sleep and cognitive status of patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS). Methods Thirty patients with HFS from our hospital were enrolled in the study from January 2015 to February 2017. Another 30 healthy individuals matched with age, sex and education level were collected simultaneously. The 14-version hamilton anxiety scale (HAMA), the 17-version Hamilton depression scale (HAMD), the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and ADDENBROOKE'S cognitive function test ACE-Ⅲ were conducted for both groups, and the data were comparatively analyzed with SPSS 21.0 software. Results Anxiety assessment showed that anxiety incidence of the patients was higher than that of the control group,which was statistically significant ( P<0.05); the anxiety incidence was not related to the degree of spasms,which was not statistically significant ( P>0.05); the proportion of female patients with anxiety was higher than that of male patients, but the difference was not statistically significant ( P>0.05); The proportion of patients with anxiety ≥10 years was significantly higher than that of patients < 10 years, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05); depression assessment showed that the incidence of depression was significantly higher than that of the control group ( P <0.05); the incidence of depression was not related to the degree of spasms, without statistically significant ( P >0.05); the proportion of depression in female patients was significantly higher than that of male ( P <0.05); the proportion of patients with depression ≥10 years was obviously higher than that of patients < 10 years ( P <0.05); sleep assessment showed that subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep persistence, daytime dysfunction and total score were statistically different between the patient group and the control group ( P <0.05); while habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disorder, sleep medication were not statistically different between them ( P >0.05); cognitive function assessment showed that attention, memory,language fluency, language, visual space and ACE Ⅲtotal score were not statistically different between the two groups. Conclusions Anxiety, depression and sleep problems widely exist in patients with hemifacial spasm. Emotion and sleep quality of patients with facial muscle spasms should be concerned to improve their quality of life.