Yılmaz, SavaşBilgiç, AyhanAkça, Ömer FarukTurkoğlu, SerhatHergüner, Sabri2020-03-262020-03-2620161365-15011471-1788https://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13651501.2015.1117110https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/33939Objective: 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.en10.3109/13651501.2015.1117110info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAdolescenceanxiety sensitivityanxietyconversion disorderdepressionsocial supportArticle201101826824691Q2WOS:000369844000003Q4