Validation of the Short Gambling Harm Screen (SGHS): A Tool for Assessment of Harms from Gambling
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2017 It is common for jurisdictions tasked with minimising gambling-related harm to conduct problem gambling prevalence studies for the purpose of monitoring the impact of gambling on the community.
Matthew Browne +2 more
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Avoiding gambling harm: An evidence-based set of safe gambling practices for consumers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Prior studies have identified self-regulatory strategies that are infrequently used by problem-gamblers, but which might be protective if used. However, guidelines with evidence-based safe gambling practices (SGPs) that prevent gambling-related harm are ...
Nerilee Hing +6 more
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Context matters: A meta-ethnography investigating barriers and facilitators for the effective implementation of gambling harm prevention and reduction policies. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis meta-ethnography investigates how contextual factors influence the implementation and effectiveness of gambling harm prevention and reduction interventions. Despite growing recognition of gambling as a public health concern, many interventions focus
Jani Selin, Lauri Kauppila
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A Project to Create a Novel Teaching Session on Gambling Harm, in Collaboration With Gamcare, for 4th Year Medical Students From Kings College London University (KCL) in Response to Changes in the Medical Licencing Assessment [PDF]
BJPsych OpenAims: Medical professionals are highly likely to come into contact with individuals who experience gambling harm during their careers. Around 5.5% of women and 11.9% of men globally experience some degree of gambling harm, and they are 15 times more ...
Rachel Rice, Hanna Mansi
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A population-level metric for gambling-related harm
International Gambling Studies, 2017 Prior estimates of the population-level impact of gambling have relied on economic costings. Recent work has derived disability weights for the Problem Gambling Severity Index, which measure per-person impact of gambling on quality of life on a scale of ...
Matthew Browne +2 more
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A latent class analysis of public opinions about gambling policy goals: a population-based survey in Finland [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground & Aims The significance of a reciprocal link between public opinion and policy making is widely acknowledged in literature. The aim of this study is to explore public opinion on gambling policy by identifying distinct latent classes of ...
Kalle Lind +3 more
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Charting a path towards a public health approach for gambling harm prevention [PDF]
Zeitschrift Fur Gesundheitswissenschaften, 2021 Alex Price, Margo Hilbrecht
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Critical Gambling StudiesPeople with lived experience have drawn attention to gambling stigma as a harm in itself, justifying discrimination and exacerbating other harms. The gambling establishment’s response has reproduced individual responsibility by reducing stigma to a ...
Elizabeth Killick +3 more
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A Critical Analysis of Interventions for Women Harmed by Others’ Gambling
Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 At present, gambling studies literature has multiple understandings of family and others affected (FAOs) by gambling harm and their support needs in play, each with different possibilities and constraints for harm reduction engagement with women ...
Katie Palmer du Preez +3 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background There is little longitudinal evidence on the cumulative risk of harm from gambling associated with excess spending and frequency of play. The present study sought to assess the risk of gambling problems over a five-year period in adults who ...
Shawn R. Currie +3 more
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