title: Relationships among depression, anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and perceived social support in adolescents with conversion disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to assess the relationships of depression, anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and perceived social support with conversion symptoms in adolescents with conversion disorder (CD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty outpatients, aged 8-18 years, who had been diagnosed with CD and members of a control group were assessed using the psychological questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with controls, adolescents with CD scored higher on the Child Depression Inventory (CDI), Screen for Child Anxiety-related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) total, CASI physical and cognitive subscales, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support family subscale. Multiple regression analysis showed that CDI, CASI total, and CASI cognitive scores predicted the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ) scores and that CDI and CASI total scores predicted the Children's Somatization Inventory (CSI) scores of subjects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggest that adolescents with CD had poor psychosocial well-being, and depression, global anxiety sensitivity and anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns are related to conversion symptoms.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey ;
authors.forename: Savaş
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.affiliation: a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey ;
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bilgiç
authors.affiliation: a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey ;
authors.forename: Ömer Faruk
authors.initials: ÖF
authors.lastname: Akça
authors.affiliation: b Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Selcuk University, School of Medicine , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: Serhat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Türkoğlu
authors.affiliation: a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey ;
authors.forename: Sabri
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hergüner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Adolescence; anxiety; anxiety sensitivity; conversion disorder; depression; social support