Conversion Disorder Comorbidity and Childhood Trauma

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this study is to examine the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, the presence of comorbidity, and the link with childhood traumatic experiences in patients with conversion disorder (CD) in a psychiatric outpatient clinic.Methods: A total of 60 literate, female patients between 18 and 65 years of age who were referred to the general psychiatry outpatient clinic and who were diagnosed with conversion disorder according to the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria were included in the study. A questionnaire on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and the Dissociative Events Scale (DES) were used to assess the cases.Results: The mean age of the participants was 36.27±11.18 years. 72% of the patients were married and 63% were primary school grad

Özet

Amaç: Bu çalışmada genel psikiyatri polikliniğine ayaktan başvuran Konversiyon Bozukluğu hastalarında sosyodemografik, klinik özellikler, eştanı varlığının değerlendirilmesi ve bu özelliklerin çocukluk çağı travma yaşantıları ile bağlantısının araştırılması amaçlandı