Lower severity gambling and associated social, health and economic correlates

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dc.contributor.authorOdeloye, Odedeji
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences
dc.contributor.supervisorChristensen, Darren R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T20:02:50Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T20:02:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractGambling poses a public health threat due to the harmful effects on individuals, family, and the community at large. Although most of the consequences experienced by problem gamblers are well documented, less is known about the experiences of other group of gamblers such as low severity gamblers. The purpose of this study was to examine the social, health and economic correlates for lower severity gambling (low and moderate risk) and to identify their sociodemographic characteristics. Binary logistic regressions were used to analyse data from the cross-sectional study of 4303 participants in Tasmania. When compared with problem gamblers, low and moderate risk gamblers were more likely to have better quality of life. Furthermore, low risk gamblers were highly educated, older female immigrants, with higher annual income, and less likely to experience problems with drug use, chronic illnesses, finances and life event. These findings have implications for health education and harm minimization.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlberta Gambling Research Institute (AGRI)en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5105
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0566en_US
dc.proquest.subject0384en_US
dc.proquest.subject0573en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : Universtiy of Lethbridge, Faculty of Health Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences)en_US
dc.subjectGamblers -- Researchen_US
dc.subjectGambling -- Cross cultural studiesen_US
dc.subjectGambling -- Social aspectsen_US
dc.subjectGambling -- Economic aspectsen_US
dc.subjectGambling -- Psychological aspectsen_US
dc.subjectHarm reductionen_US
dc.subjectlower severity gamblingen_US
dc.subjectgambling related harmen_US
dc.subjectlow risk gamblersen_US
dc.subjectmoderate risk gamblersen_US
dc.subjectsociodemographic predictorsen_US
dc.titleLower severity gambling and associated social, health and economic correlatesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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