Participants were screened for past year
problem gambling using the Brief Bio Social Gambling Screen (BBGS; Gebauer et al. 2010).
The primary objective of this study was to assess the gender differences of perceived
problem gambling using data from help - line callers.
Not exact matches
Catholic organizations have no
problem paying non-Catholics to work for them and those non-Catholic's can take that money that was paid to them and pay for an abortion, go
gambling in Vegas, buy medical marijuana, buy condoms or even visit a Nevada «Chicken Ranch» if they want to, all funded by the Catholic Church, but don't you dare tell the Church they have to pay into a healthcare system where some employee's may choose to
use those health benefits to pay for contraceptives?
Rates of
problem gambling remained in the 3.5 to 5.5 percent range, depending on the measure
used, and rates of pathological
gambling were in the 1.0 to 2.4 percent range.
Additionally,
gambling was associated with an increased likelihood of weapons being
used in acts of violence, with more than a quarter in the pathological category, 18 per cent of
problem gamblers, and seven per cent of non-
problem gamblers reporting weapon usage.
Demos also saw a net 18 percentage point increase in pupils feeling that they know where to go to talk about
gambling problems, an 11 - percentage point increase in pupils able to describe delayed gratification, and a net 10 percentage point increase in pupils understanding the techniques
used by the
gambling industry to persuade people to
gamble.
The term addiction is
used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive physical dependence or psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction, video game addiction, crime, money, alcoholism, work addiction, compulsive overeating,
problem gambling, computer addiction, etc..
For example, the increased risk of hazardous alcohol
use according to the WHO - AUDIT was found to be 4.3 and people with
problem gambling were at a 3.8-fold risk of daily smoking compared with non-
problem gambling groups.
Problem Gambling and Attention - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder outlines some of the clinical issues encountered in this population and
uses case studies to illustrate common ways in which these clients present.
This suggests
gambling treatment providers might be able to improve outcomes for the smoker population by expanding treatment to include treatment for substance
use and psychiatric
problems.
This week, as part of our Special Series on
Gambling Disorder, STASH reviews a study by Nancy Petry and colleagues that explores how to reduce gambling - related problems among people in substance use tr
Gambling Disorder, STASH reviews a study by Nancy Petry and colleagues that explores how to reduce
gambling - related problems among people in substance use tr
gambling - related
problems among people in substance
use treatment.
Many people who experience
problems with
gambling experience other substance
use or mental health conditions, and
You may have discovered that your spouse / partner has been keeping secrets from you around money (spending), alcohol or drug
use, a hidden
gambling problem, viewing pornography, to name a few.
For the purposes of this study we will
use the term «
problem gambling» rather than pathological
gambling.
Future advances in measurement will necessitate
using standardized measures to assess various facets of
problem gambling and adopting a holistic approach to assessing facets synergistically to identify sub-groups and inform targeted treatment strategies.
To attain the goal, the researcher designs a model in which leisure activity and happiness experience regulate stress (interpersonal relationship, work) and the
gambling problem (behavior frequency, addiction) separately and verifies it by
using data about 485 adults residing in Gangwon Province.
In response to the open - ended question about
gambling - related coping strategies, the responses were coded under four major themes reflecting strategies the participants
used to cope with family member's
problem gambling: (1) financial control including taking over the finances; (2) supportive engagement including talking, rationalising, giving advice; (3) help - seeking including support for the gambler to attend counselling; and (4) avoidance and denial such as keeping away from the gambler and doing their own thing.
In this New Zealand study,
using face - to - face interviews, no association between
problem gambling and IPV victimisation in 700 couples with a Pacific infant was found although there was a strong association between alcohol
use and IPV.
For Phase 2 data, a thematic analysis approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006) was
used to identify common categories of response in the open - ended questions about the relationship between
problem gambling and family violence,
gambling - related family impacts and coping strategies.