title: [The assessment of anxiety and depression state in Meniere's disease patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the incidence of anxiety and depression state in patients with Meniere's disease, to provide objective evidence for curing Meniere's disease effectively.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hamilton anxiety scale and Hamilton depression scale were used to quantitatively analyze the anxiety and depression state of 60 patients with untreated definite Meniere's disease and 20 normal controls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The scores of patients with Meniere's disease was significantly higher than that of normal controls (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in scores between the males and females in Meniere's disease patients (P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with Meniere's disease experienced high level of anxiety and depression. The treatment should not only focus on the physiological disorder but also the psychiatric and emotional problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the 12th Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, 510620, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Haitao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ziming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales