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Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble

OBJECTIVE: This study examined past year attempts to reduce or quit gambling among people who gamble generally and those with gambling problems specifically. METHODS: Regular gamblers recruited from an online panel (N = 10,054) completed a survey of gambling, mental health and substance use comorbid...

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Autores principales: Hodgins, David C., Williams, Robert J., Belanger, Yale D., Christensen, Darren R., El-Guebaly, Nady, McGrath, Daniel S., Nicoll, Fiona, Shaw, Carrie A., Stevens, Rhys M. G.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.892238
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author Hodgins, David C.
Williams, Robert J.
Belanger, Yale D.
Christensen, Darren R.
El-Guebaly, Nady
McGrath, Daniel S.
Nicoll, Fiona
Shaw, Carrie A.
Stevens, Rhys M. G.
author_facet Hodgins, David C.
Williams, Robert J.
Belanger, Yale D.
Christensen, Darren R.
El-Guebaly, Nady
McGrath, Daniel S.
Nicoll, Fiona
Shaw, Carrie A.
Stevens, Rhys M. G.
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description OBJECTIVE: This study examined past year attempts to reduce or quit gambling among people who gamble generally and those with gambling problems specifically. METHODS: Regular gamblers recruited from an online panel (N = 10,054) completed a survey of gambling, mental health and substance use comorbidity and attempts to reduce or quit gambling. The sample was weighted to match the gambling and demographic profile for the same subsample (i.e., past month gamblers) in a recent Canadian national survey. RESULTS: 5.7% reported that they tried to cutback or stop gambling in the past year. As predicted, individuals making a change attempt had greater levels of problem gambling severity and were more likely to have a gambling problem. Of individuals with problem gambling, 59.8% made a change attempt. Of those, 90.2% indicated that they did this primarily on their own, and 7.7% accessed formal or informal treatment. Most people attempting self- change indicated that this was a personal preference (55%) but about a third reported feeling too ashamed to seek help. Over a third (31%) reported that their attempt was successful. Of the small group of people accessing treatment, 39% described it as helpful. CONCLUSIONS: Whereas gambling treatment-seeking rates are low, rates of self-change attempts are high. The public health challenge is to promote self-change efforts among people beginning to experience gambling problems, facilitate success at self-change by providing accessible support for use of successful strategies, and provide seamless bridges to a range of other treatments when desired or required.
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spelling pubmed-94283382022-09-01 Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble Hodgins, David C. Williams, Robert J. Belanger, Yale D. Christensen, Darren R. El-Guebaly, Nady McGrath, Daniel S. Nicoll, Fiona Shaw, Carrie A. Stevens, Rhys M. G. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: This study examined past year attempts to reduce or quit gambling among people who gamble generally and those with gambling problems specifically. METHODS: Regular gamblers recruited from an online panel (N = 10,054) completed a survey of gambling, mental health and substance use comorbidity and attempts to reduce or quit gambling. The sample was weighted to match the gambling and demographic profile for the same subsample (i.e., past month gamblers) in a recent Canadian national survey. RESULTS: 5.7% reported that they tried to cutback or stop gambling in the past year. As predicted, individuals making a change attempt had greater levels of problem gambling severity and were more likely to have a gambling problem. Of individuals with problem gambling, 59.8% made a change attempt. Of those, 90.2% indicated that they did this primarily on their own, and 7.7% accessed formal or informal treatment. Most people attempting self- change indicated that this was a personal preference (55%) but about a third reported feeling too ashamed to seek help. Over a third (31%) reported that their attempt was successful. Of the small group of people accessing treatment, 39% described it as helpful. CONCLUSIONS: Whereas gambling treatment-seeking rates are low, rates of self-change attempts are high. The public health challenge is to promote self-change efforts among people beginning to experience gambling problems, facilitate success at self-change by providing accessible support for use of successful strategies, and provide seamless bridges to a range of other treatments when desired or required. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9428338/ /pubmed/36061299 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.892238 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hodgins, Williams, Belanger, Christensen, El-Guebaly, McGrath, Nicoll, Shaw and Stevens. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hodgins, David C.
Williams, Robert J.
Belanger, Yale D.
Christensen, Darren R.
El-Guebaly, Nady
McGrath, Daniel S.
Nicoll, Fiona
Shaw, Carrie A.
Stevens, Rhys M. G.
Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title_full Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title_fullStr Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title_full_unstemmed Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title_short Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble
title_sort making change: attempts to reduce or stop gambling in a general population sample of people who gamble
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.892238
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