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McElroy Diagnostic Criteria for Compulsive Buying
McElroy Diagnostic Criteria for Compulsive Buying
| Availability |
The instrument is freely available here: PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
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| Classification |
Supplemental: Parkinson's Disease (PD)
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| Short Description of Instrument |
The McElroy Diagnostic Criteria for Compulsive Buying are DSM-IV style criteria designed to address compulsive buying.
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| Scoring |
N/A-There is no scoring for these criteria. They are intended to help identify compulsive buyers by providing guidelines frequently seen in people who are compulsive buyers.
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| References |
McElroy SL, Keck PE, Pope HG, Smith JM, Strakowski SM. Compulsive buying: a report of 20 cases. J Clin Psychiatry 1994;55:242-248.
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