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Clustering of treatment-seeking women with gambling disorder

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of gambling disorder (GD) in women has increased, but, to date, few studies have explored the features of clinical GD subtypes in female samples. AIMS: The aim of this study is to identify empirical clusters based on clinical/sociodemographic variables in a sample of treat...

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Autores principales: Granero, Roser, Fernández-Aranda, Fernando, Mestre-Bach, Gemma, Steward, Trevor, García-Caro, Bárbara, Prever, Fulvia, Gavriel-Fried, Belle, del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo, Moragas, Laura, Aymamí, Neus, Gómez-Peña, Mónica, Mena-Moreno, Teresa, Martín-Romera, Virginia, Menchón, José M., Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
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Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30238785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.93
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author Granero, Roser
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Mestre-Bach, Gemma
Steward, Trevor
García-Caro, Bárbara
Prever, Fulvia
Gavriel-Fried, Belle
del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo
Moragas, Laura
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Mena-Moreno, Teresa
Martín-Romera, Virginia
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
author_facet Granero, Roser
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Mestre-Bach, Gemma
Steward, Trevor
García-Caro, Bárbara
Prever, Fulvia
Gavriel-Fried, Belle
del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo
Moragas, Laura
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Mena-Moreno, Teresa
Martín-Romera, Virginia
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
author_sort Granero, Roser
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description BACKGROUND: The prevalence of gambling disorder (GD) in women has increased, but, to date, few studies have explored the features of clinical GD subtypes in female samples. AIMS: The aim of this study is to identify empirical clusters based on clinical/sociodemographic variables in a sample of treatment-seeking women with GD. METHODS: Agglomerative hierarchical clustering was applied to a sample of n = 280 patients, using sociodemographic variables, psychopathology, and personality traits as indicators for the grouping procedure. RESULTS: Three mutually exclusive groups were obtained: (a) Cluster 1 (highly dysfunctional; n = 82, 29.3%) endorsed the highest levels in gambling severity, comorbid psychopathology, novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and self-transcendence, and the lowest scores in self-directedness and cooperativeness; (b) Cluster 2 (dysfunctional; n = 142, 50.7%) achieved medium mean scores in gambling severity and psychopathological symptoms; and (c) Cluster 3 (functional; n = 56, 20.0%) obtained the lowest mean scores in gambling severity and in psychopathology, and a personality profile characterized by low levels in novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and self-transcendence, and the highest levels in self-directedness and cooperativeness. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds light on the clinical heterogeneity of women suffering from GD. Identifying the differing features of women with GD is vital to developing prevention programs and personalized treatment protocols for this overlooked population.
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spelling pubmed-64263952019-04-24 Clustering of treatment-seeking women with gambling disorder Granero, Roser Fernández-Aranda, Fernando Mestre-Bach, Gemma Steward, Trevor García-Caro, Bárbara Prever, Fulvia Gavriel-Fried, Belle del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo Moragas, Laura Aymamí, Neus Gómez-Peña, Mónica Mena-Moreno, Teresa Martín-Romera, Virginia Menchón, José M. Jiménez-Murcia, Susana J Behav Addict Full-Length Report BACKGROUND: The prevalence of gambling disorder (GD) in women has increased, but, to date, few studies have explored the features of clinical GD subtypes in female samples. AIMS: The aim of this study is to identify empirical clusters based on clinical/sociodemographic variables in a sample of treatment-seeking women with GD. METHODS: Agglomerative hierarchical clustering was applied to a sample of n = 280 patients, using sociodemographic variables, psychopathology, and personality traits as indicators for the grouping procedure. RESULTS: Three mutually exclusive groups were obtained: (a) Cluster 1 (highly dysfunctional; n = 82, 29.3%) endorsed the highest levels in gambling severity, comorbid psychopathology, novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and self-transcendence, and the lowest scores in self-directedness and cooperativeness; (b) Cluster 2 (dysfunctional; n = 142, 50.7%) achieved medium mean scores in gambling severity and psychopathological symptoms; and (c) Cluster 3 (functional; n = 56, 20.0%) obtained the lowest mean scores in gambling severity and in psychopathology, and a personality profile characterized by low levels in novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and self-transcendence, and the highest levels in self-directedness and cooperativeness. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds light on the clinical heterogeneity of women suffering from GD. Identifying the differing features of women with GD is vital to developing prevention programs and personalized treatment protocols for this overlooked population. Akadémiai Kiadó 2018-09-21 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6426395/ /pubmed/30238785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.93 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://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.
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Granero, Roser
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Mestre-Bach, Gemma
Steward, Trevor
García-Caro, Bárbara
Prever, Fulvia
Gavriel-Fried, Belle
del Pino-Gutiérrez, Amparo
Moragas, Laura
Aymamí, Neus
Gómez-Peña, Mónica
Mena-Moreno, Teresa
Martín-Romera, Virginia
Menchón, José M.
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.93
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