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Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study
When the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading globally, there was a fear that addictive behaviors would increase due to changes in everyday life caused by restrictions due to COVID-19. Studies were carried out to explore if this was true for gambling, typically revealing no overall increase in gambli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619111 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1045709 |
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author | Forsström, David Lindner, Philip Månsson, Kristoffer N. T. Ojala, Olivia Hedman-Lagerlöf, Maria El Alaoui, Samir Rozental, Alexander Lundin, Johan Jangard, Simon Shahnavaz, Shervin Sörman, Karolina Lundgren, Tobias Jayaram-Lindström, Nitya |
author_facet | Forsström, David Lindner, Philip Månsson, Kristoffer N. T. Ojala, Olivia Hedman-Lagerlöf, Maria El Alaoui, Samir Rozental, Alexander Lundin, Johan Jangard, Simon Shahnavaz, Shervin Sörman, Karolina Lundgren, Tobias Jayaram-Lindström, Nitya |
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description | When the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading globally, there was a fear that addictive behaviors would increase due to changes in everyday life caused by restrictions due to COVID-19. Studies were carried out to explore if this was true for gambling, typically revealing no overall increase in gambling behavior, although individuals who had previous experience with gambling problems were more likely to increase gambling during the pandemic. However, these studies only included individuals with previous gambling problems. It remains unknown whether other vulnerable groups, such as individuals with common mental disorders increased their gambling. This study aimed to explore the level of gambling problems among individuals with a history of mental disorders, namely, (i) pre-pandemic gamblers and (ii) pandemic-onset gamblers. Furthermore, we explored if worry and isolation mediate gambling and problem gambling. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a structural equation model to investigate mediation. The results showed a high prevalence of at-risk and problem gambling in both groups. The pre-pandemic gamblers had a high level of at-risk and problem gambling. Furthermore, the individuals that started to gamble during the pandemic had an even higher degree of at-risk and problem gambling. The mediation showed that the onset of gambling was linked with the worry of COVID-infection and that worry predicted the level of gambling problems. This study highlights that vulnerability factors, isolation, and worry can be triggers for individuals with common mental disorders to engage in gambling as well as the importance of screening this population for gambling problems. |
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spelling | pubmed-98138642023-01-06 Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study Forsström, David Lindner, Philip Månsson, Kristoffer N. T. Ojala, Olivia Hedman-Lagerlöf, Maria El Alaoui, Samir Rozental, Alexander Lundin, Johan Jangard, Simon Shahnavaz, Shervin Sörman, Karolina Lundgren, Tobias Jayaram-Lindström, Nitya Front Psychol Psychology When the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading globally, there was a fear that addictive behaviors would increase due to changes in everyday life caused by restrictions due to COVID-19. Studies were carried out to explore if this was true for gambling, typically revealing no overall increase in gambling behavior, although individuals who had previous experience with gambling problems were more likely to increase gambling during the pandemic. However, these studies only included individuals with previous gambling problems. It remains unknown whether other vulnerable groups, such as individuals with common mental disorders increased their gambling. This study aimed to explore the level of gambling problems among individuals with a history of mental disorders, namely, (i) pre-pandemic gamblers and (ii) pandemic-onset gamblers. Furthermore, we explored if worry and isolation mediate gambling and problem gambling. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a structural equation model to investigate mediation. The results showed a high prevalence of at-risk and problem gambling in both groups. The pre-pandemic gamblers had a high level of at-risk and problem gambling. Furthermore, the individuals that started to gamble during the pandemic had an even higher degree of at-risk and problem gambling. The mediation showed that the onset of gambling was linked with the worry of COVID-infection and that worry predicted the level of gambling problems. This study highlights that vulnerability factors, isolation, and worry can be triggers for individuals with common mental disorders to engage in gambling as well as the importance of screening this population for gambling problems. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9813864/ /pubmed/36619111 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1045709 Text en Copyright © 2022 Forsström, Lindner, Månsson, Ojala, Hedman-Lagerlöf, El Alaoui, Rozental, Lundin, Jangard, Shahnavaz, Sörman, Lundgren and Jayaram-Lindström. 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Forsström, David Lindner, Philip Månsson, Kristoffer N. T. Ojala, Olivia Hedman-Lagerlöf, Maria El Alaoui, Samir Rozental, Alexander Lundin, Johan Jangard, Simon Shahnavaz, Shervin Sörman, Karolina Lundgren, Tobias Jayaram-Lindström, Nitya Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title | Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title_full | Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title_fullStr | Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title_full_unstemmed | Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title_short | Isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mediation study |
title_sort | isolation and worry in relation to gambling and onset of gambling among psychiatry patients during the covid-19 pandemic: a mediation study |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619111 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1045709 |
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