Sentences with phrase «problem gamblers compared»

When the researchers repeated the analysis to focus on problem gambling − a larger group of people than those with the more narrowly defined pathological gambling − they found that 16 percent of relatives of the pathological gamblers were problem gamblers compared to 3 percent of relatives of controls.

Not exact matches

In collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Dr Henrietta Bowden - Jones, director of the UK's only specialist gambling clinic in the Central and North West London NHS Trust, Dr Clark and his colleagues compared the brains and behaviours of 86 male, pathological gamblers with those of 45 healthy men without a gambling problem.

Petry and Oncken compared the demographics and current gambling and psychosocial problems of daily smokers to those of gamblers who were never daily smokers.

When compared to non-problem gamblers, problem gamblers were significantly more likely to have experienced the following life events in the last 12 months:

Compared to problem gamblers without depression (n = 71), problem gamblers with comorbid depression (n = 34) reported more severe gambling problems, greater history of childhood abuse and neglect, poorer family functioning, higher levels of neuroticism, and lower levels of extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

The frequency of family violence victimisation was not significantly different between participants who were problem gamblers (n = 37; 47.4 %) compared to non-problem gamblers (n = 26; 33.3 %)(X 2 = 1.97, df = 1, p =.18).