Life satisfaction poor in those with kleptomania, pathological gambling.(Forensic Psychiatry)(Brief Article)

From: Clinical Psychiatry News | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Franklin, Deeanna | Copyright information

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 ye...

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