Problem gambling, associations with comorbid health conditions, substance use, and behavioural addictions: Opportunities for pathways to treatment - PubMed (original) (raw)
Problem gambling, associations with comorbid health conditions, substance use, and behavioural addictions: Opportunities for pathways to treatment
Madison Ford et al. PLoS One. 2020.
Abstract
Background: Problem gambling is a public health issue and its comorbidity with other health conditions may provide an opportunity for screening in healthcare settings; however, a high level of uncertainty and a lack of research in the field remains. The objective of this study is to investigate potential associations between problem gambling and numerous other health conditions, including substance use, mental health problems, and behavioural addictions.
Methods: A cross-sectional web-survey was distributed by a market research company to an online panel of respondents in Sweden, which aimed to be representative of the general population. Chi-squared and Mann-Whitney U tests, followed by logistic regression analysis, were performed to determine associations between screening positive for lifetime problem gambling and potential comorbid conditions and behaviours.
Results: Among 2038 participants, 5.7 percent screened positive for lifetime problem gambling. Significant associations were found between problem gambling and male gender, education level, daily tobacco use, moderate psychological distress, problematic shopping, and problem gaming.
Conclusion: The association between screening for problem gambling and other health conditions, including psychological distress and behavioural addictions such as shopping and gaming, demonstrates the need to screen for problem gambling in the context of other health hazards, such as in different healthcare settings. Further research is required to identify the temporal relationship between these conditions and to investigate underlying etiological mechanisms.
Conflict of interest statement
Dr Håkansson has a position at the University which is financially supported by Svenska spel AB, the state-owned gambling operator. Other research funding in the research group comes from the state-owned alcohol monopoly, and from the regional health care system. Non-financial support for other research is received from Kontigo care, a company marketing medical devices, as one device and digital system from the company is provided without cost in a clinical study testing that device. In a previous, epidemiological study, Dr Håkansson was one of the national co-investigators in a multicenter epidemiological survey (conducted in 2014), where the academic research institute Research Triangle Institute (in the US) was the main investigator, and the overall study support came from Shire pharmaceuticals in agreement with Research Triangle Institute. As one of the national co-investigators, Dr Håkansson did not receive any personal salary from and did not have any direct negotiating contact with the funding company. Importantly, the collaborations with the two above mentioned bodies do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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The present work was carried out thanks to an overall research grant from Svenska spel AB, the Swedish state-owned gambling operator. This grant is non project-specific, and Svenska spel AB was not involved in the project in any way, neither in the planning or research idea, nor in the data Collection, interpretation of results, or in the writing of the paper.
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