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Article: Life satisfaction poor in those with kleptomania, pathological gambling.(Forensic Psychiatry)(Brief Article)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- June 1, 2005
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People with symptoms of pathological gambling and kleptomania, regardless of severity, seem to have a very poor quality of life, reported Jon Grant. M.D., of Brown University, Providence, R.I., and Suck-Won Kim, M.D., of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Their study comprised three groups. A group of 30 kleptomania patients included 18 women and had a mean age of 42 years. The pathological gambling group had 43 patients, 18 of them women, with a mean age of 45 years. The control group consisted of 30 adults (15 women) with a mean age of 40 (Compr. Psychiatry 2005;46:34-7).
No correlation was seen between quality of life scores and age, gender, ...