title: Nasal diseases and psychological distress.
abstract: A high rate of ENT doctors were murdered by nasal disordered patients in China recently. It is obviously important and urgent to find out whether there is any potential relationship between nasal diseases (ND) and psychological distress that might contribute to violent behavior. For this purpose, we carried out this literature review. There is a complex relationship between ND and psychiatric distress, which is mainly considered as a bidirectional causal relationship with other controversy opinions. However, most of the previous studies were found to be focused on allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, while reports about other ND were rare. Further study is still needed to uncover the secret aspects in this field, and more attentions need to be paid to other ND.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery , The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University , Chongqing 400010 , China.
authors.forename: Deping
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery , The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University , Chongqing 400010 , China.
authors.forename: Wenlong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000523:psychology; D065631:Rhinitis, Allergic / Q000523:psychology; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence
keywords: allergic rhinitis; chronic rhinosinusitis; nasal diseases; psychological distress