Two Cases of Compulsive Buying Behavior in Mentally Challenged Persons
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Estimated prevalence of compulsive buying behavior in the United States.
OBJECTIVE Compulsive buying (uncontrolled urges to buy, with resulting significant adverse consequences) has been estimated to affect from 1.8% to 16% of the adult U.S. population. To the authors' knowledge, no study has used a large general population sample to estimate its prevalence. METHOD The authors conducted a random sample, national household telephone survey in the spring and summer ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1523-5998
DOI: 10.4088/pcc.v09n0611f