A 1-year naturalistic follow-up of patients with compulsive shopping disorder.
- 15 August 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
- Vol. 64 (8) , 946-950
- https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.v64n0814
Abstract
Compulsive shopping disorder is increasingly recognized as a treatable impulse-control disorder. We report the first long-term, naturalistic follow-up of patients with compulsive shopping disorder, which examined the course of illness over 1 year in a cohort that had completed up to 3 months of open-label treatment with citalopram, 20 mg/day to 60 mg/day. In that trial, 17 (71%) of 24 subjects who met McElroy and colleagues' diagnostic criteria for compulsive shopping disorder were responders (Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement scale rating of much or very much improved and Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-Shopping Version score decrease of >/= 50%).Keywords
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