Motherhood and Treatment Outcome in Female Patients with Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder

Gemma Mestre-Bach; Roser Granero; Gemma Casalé-Salayet; Fernando Fernández-Aranda; Astrid Müller; Matthias Brand; Mónica Gómez-Peña; Laura Moragas; Isabel Sánchez; Lucía Camacho-Barcia; Alejandro Villena; Milagros L Lara-Huallipe; Susana Jiménez-Murcia

doi:10.3390/ijerph19127075

Motherhood and Treatment Outcome in Female Patients with Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 9;19(12):7075. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127075.

Authors

Gemma Mestre-Bach¹, Roser Granero^{2

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4}, Gemma Casalé-Salayet⁵, Fernando Fernández-Aranda^{2

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7}, Astrid Müller⁸, Matthias Brand^{9

10}, Mónica Gómez-Peña^{4

6}, Laura Moragas^{4

6}, Isabel Sánchez^{2

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6}, Lucía Camacho-Barcia^{2

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6}, Alejandro Villena¹¹, Milagros L Lara-Huallipe^{4

6}, Susana Jiménez-Murcia^{2

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6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain.
² Ciber Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28015 Madrid, Spain.
³ Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviors Group, Neurosciences Programme, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ CPB-Serveis de Salut Mental, 08013 Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital, 08907 Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
⁹ General Psychology: Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
¹⁰ Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 45141 Essen, Germany.
¹¹ Unidad Sexología Clínica y Salud Sexual, Consulta Dr. Carlos Chiclana, 28003 Madrid, Spain.

Abstract

Motherhood has been proposed as an internal facilitating factor for the recovery of women with mental disorders. However, at the same time, there are significant barriers that may be interfering with the access and adherence to treatment for these women. The present longitudinal study aimed to deepen the sociodemographic and clinical profile of women with children and compulsive buying-shopping disorder (CBSD), and to explore the association between motherhood and response to treatment. The total sample included 77 women with a diagnosis of CBSD (n = 49 mothers) who received cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for 12 weeks. No association between psychopathology and motherhood was observed. The group of mothers reported an older age of onset of the CBSD, a lower amount of money spent per compulsive-buying episode, and a higher likelihood of family support for the CBSD. Moreover, this group showed lower risk of relapse. The findings support the theoretical proposal that considers motherhood as an internal facilitating factor for recovery and treatment adherence of mothers with addictions.

Keywords: cognitive behavioral therapy; compliance; compulsive buying disorder; dropout; motherhood; relapse; women.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Commerce*
Compulsive Behavior* / therapy
Compulsive Personality Disorder
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Treatment Outcome

Grants and funding

CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya gave institutional support. This work was additionally supported by a grant from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (grant RTI2018-101837-B-100). The research was funded by the Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (2019I47 and 2021I031), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) (PI17/01167), and co-funded by FEDER funds/European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), a way to build Europe. CIBEROBN is an initiative of ISCIII. G.M.-B. was supported by a postdoctoral grant from FUNCIVA. R.G. was supported by The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA Academia Program). The Research Commission of Bellvitge Campus, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona also provided financial support through the grant to conclude the doctoral thesis (M.-L.L.-H.). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.