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Journal article
Gambling-related harms to concerned significant others: A national Australian prevalence study
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol.11(2), pp.361-372
13/07/2022
PMCID: PMC9295213
PMID: 35895474
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Abstract
Background and aims: Gambling-related harm to concerned significant others (CSOs) is an important public health issue since it reduces CSOs' health and wellbeing in numerous life domains. This study aimed to 1) estimate the first national prevalence of CSOs harmed by gambling in Australia; 2) identify the characteristics of CSOs most at risk of harm from another person's gambling; 3) compare the types and number of harms experienced by CSOs based on their relationship to the person who gambles; and 4) compare the number of harms experienced by CSOs by self-identified gender.
Method: Based on a national CATI survey weighted to population norms, 11,560 respondents reported whether they had been personally and negatively affected by another person's gambling in the past 12 months; and if so, answered detailed questions about the harms experienced from the person's gambling who had harmed them the most.
Result: Past-year prevalence of gambling-related harm to adult Australian CSOs was (6.0%; 95% CI 5.6%–6.5%). CSOs most commonly reported emotional harms, followed by relationship, financial, health and vocational harms, respectively. Former partners reported the most harm, followed by current partners, other family members and non-family members, respectively. Female CSOs were more likely to report more harm and being harmed by a partner or other family member, and male CSOs from a non-family member.
Discussion and conclusions: The findings provide new insights into the wider societal burden of gambling and inform measures aimed at reducing harm to CSOs from gambling and supporting them to seek help.
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- Title
- Gambling-related harms to concerned significant others: A national Australian prevalence study
- Creators
- Nerilee Hing - Central Queensland UniversityAlex M T Russell - Central Queensland UniversityMatthew Browne - Central Queensland UniversityMatthew Rockloff - Central Queensland UniversityCatherine Tulloch - Central Queensland UniversityVijay Rawat - Central Queensland UniversityNancy Greer - Central Queensland UniversityNicki A Dowling - Deakin UniversityStephanie S Merkouris - Deakin UniversityDaniel L King - Flinders UniversityMatthew Stevens - Charles Darwin UniversityAnne H Salonen - Finnish Institute for Health and WelfareHelen Breen - Southern Cross UniversityLinda Woo - Oldham Council
- Publication Details
- Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol.11(2), pp.361-372
- Publisher
- Akademiai Kiado Rt
- Grant note
- Funding for this study was provided by Gambling Research Australia, a partnership between the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments to initiate and manage a national gambling research program.
- Identifiers
- 991013052393202368
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Author(s) Open Access. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article