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Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors
This study sought to determine the prevalence of gambling and unhealthy gambling behaviour and describe risk and protective factors associated with these behaviours amongst a nationally representative sample of New Zealand secondary school students (n = 8,500). Factor analysis and item response theo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26798329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9562-1 |
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author | Rossen, Fiona V. Clark, Terryann Denny, Simon J. Fleming, Theresa M. Peiris-John, Roshini Robinson, Elizabeth Lucassen, Mathijs F. G. |
author_facet | Rossen, Fiona V. Clark, Terryann Denny, Simon J. Fleming, Theresa M. Peiris-John, Roshini Robinson, Elizabeth Lucassen, Mathijs F. G. |
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description | This study sought to determine the prevalence of gambling and unhealthy gambling behaviour and describe risk and protective factors associated with these behaviours amongst a nationally representative sample of New Zealand secondary school students (n = 8,500). Factor analysis and item response theory were used to develop a model to provide a measure of ‘unhealthy gambling’. Logistic regressions and multiple logistic regression models were used to investigate associations between unhealthy gambling behaviour and selected outcomes. Approximately one-quarter (24.2 %) of students had gambled in the last year, and 4.8 % had two or more indicators of unhealthy gambling. Multivariate analyses found that unhealthy gambling was associated with four main factors: more accepting attitudes towards gambling (p < 0.0001); gambling via gambling machines/casinos/track betting (p = 0.0061); being worried about and/or trying to cut down on gambling (p < 0.0001); and, having attempted suicide (p = 0.0009). Unhealthy gambling is a significant health issue for young people in New Zealand. Ethnic and social inequalities were apparent and these disparities need to be addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-47106442016-01-19 Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors Rossen, Fiona V. Clark, Terryann Denny, Simon J. Fleming, Theresa M. Peiris-John, Roshini Robinson, Elizabeth Lucassen, Mathijs F. G. Int J Ment Health Addict Article This study sought to determine the prevalence of gambling and unhealthy gambling behaviour and describe risk and protective factors associated with these behaviours amongst a nationally representative sample of New Zealand secondary school students (n = 8,500). Factor analysis and item response theory were used to develop a model to provide a measure of ‘unhealthy gambling’. Logistic regressions and multiple logistic regression models were used to investigate associations between unhealthy gambling behaviour and selected outcomes. Approximately one-quarter (24.2 %) of students had gambled in the last year, and 4.8 % had two or more indicators of unhealthy gambling. Multivariate analyses found that unhealthy gambling was associated with four main factors: more accepting attitudes towards gambling (p < 0.0001); gambling via gambling machines/casinos/track betting (p = 0.0061); being worried about and/or trying to cut down on gambling (p < 0.0001); and, having attempted suicide (p = 0.0009). Unhealthy gambling is a significant health issue for young people in New Zealand. Ethnic and social inequalities were apparent and these disparities need to be addressed. Springer US 2015-06-30 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4710644/ /pubmed/26798329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9562-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Rossen, Fiona V. Clark, Terryann Denny, Simon J. Fleming, Theresa M. Peiris-John, Roshini Robinson, Elizabeth Lucassen, Mathijs F. G. Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title | Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title_full | Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title_fullStr | Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title_full_unstemmed | Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title_short | Unhealthy Gambling Amongst New Zealand Secondary School Students: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors |
title_sort | unhealthy gambling amongst new zealand secondary school students: an exploration of risk and protective factors |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26798329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9562-1 |
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