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Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers

The coronavirus pandemic affected the life of those suffering from addictive behaviors often confined to prolonged periods of self-isolation. To explore the variation of symptoms related to gambling, 46 outpatients of the mental health services in the Trento Province were invited to take part in a p...

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Autores principales: Cataldo, Ilaria, Casonato, Eleonora, Levari, Ermelinda, Negri, Attilio, Simonato, Pierluigi, Tomasi, Giulia, Branz, Giovanna, Coppola, Aurora, Gianfranceschi, Pietro, Leoni, Eva, Mistretta, Pietro, Stefani, Martina, Vanzetta, Miriam, Franceschini, Anna, Esposito, Gianluca, Corazza, Ornella
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35128510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2022.100032
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author Cataldo, Ilaria
Casonato, Eleonora
Levari, Ermelinda
Negri, Attilio
Simonato, Pierluigi
Tomasi, Giulia
Branz, Giovanna
Coppola, Aurora
Gianfranceschi, Pietro
Leoni, Eva
Mistretta, Pietro
Stefani, Martina
Vanzetta, Miriam
Franceschini, Anna
Esposito, Gianluca
Corazza, Ornella
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Casonato, Eleonora
Levari, Ermelinda
Negri, Attilio
Simonato, Pierluigi
Tomasi, Giulia
Branz, Giovanna
Coppola, Aurora
Gianfranceschi, Pietro
Leoni, Eva
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Stefani, Martina
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Franceschini, Anna
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description The coronavirus pandemic affected the life of those suffering from addictive behaviors often confined to prolonged periods of self-isolation. To explore the variation of symptoms related to gambling, 46 outpatients of the mental health services in the Trento Province were invited to take part in a phone interview at the start of the national lockdown. Although only 2.17% increased gambling activity during this period, half of the sample (50.00%) experienced irritability, mood fluctuation (43.48%) and anxiety (39.13%). Follow-up studies should assess modifications in their behaviors that occurred after the reopening of gambling venues.
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spelling pubmed-88064002022-02-02 Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers Cataldo, Ilaria Casonato, Eleonora Levari, Ermelinda Negri, Attilio Simonato, Pierluigi Tomasi, Giulia Branz, Giovanna Coppola, Aurora Gianfranceschi, Pietro Leoni, Eva Mistretta, Pietro Stefani, Martina Vanzetta, Miriam Franceschini, Anna Esposito, Gianluca Corazza, Ornella Emerg Trends Drugs Addict Health Article The coronavirus pandemic affected the life of those suffering from addictive behaviors often confined to prolonged periods of self-isolation. To explore the variation of symptoms related to gambling, 46 outpatients of the mental health services in the Trento Province were invited to take part in a phone interview at the start of the national lockdown. Although only 2.17% increased gambling activity during this period, half of the sample (50.00%) experienced irritability, mood fluctuation (43.48%) and anxiety (39.13%). Follow-up studies should assess modifications in their behaviors that occurred after the reopening of gambling venues. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs. 2022 2022-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8806400/ /pubmed/35128510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2022.100032 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Cataldo, Ilaria
Casonato, Eleonora
Levari, Ermelinda
Negri, Attilio
Simonato, Pierluigi
Tomasi, Giulia
Branz, Giovanna
Coppola, Aurora
Gianfranceschi, Pietro
Leoni, Eva
Mistretta, Pietro
Stefani, Martina
Vanzetta, Miriam
Franceschini, Anna
Esposito, Gianluca
Corazza, Ornella
Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title_full Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title_fullStr Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title_full_unstemmed Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title_short Gambling at the time of COVID-19: Results from interviews in an Italian sample of gamblers
title_sort gambling at the time of covid-19: results from interviews in an italian sample of gamblers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35128510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2022.100032
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