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Beliefs About Gambling Problems and Recovery: Results from a General Population Telephone Survey

Date

Authors

Cunningham, John

Cordingley, Joanne

Hodgins, David

Toneatto, Tony

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

Respondents were asked their beliefs about gambling abuse as part of a general population telephone survey. The random digit dialing survey consisted of 8,467 interviews of adults, 18 years and older, from Ontario, Canada (45% male; mean age = 46.2). The

Keywords

Keywords: addiction; adult; age; article; attitude to health; Canada; control; cross-sectional study; female; human; male; middle aged; pathological gambling; patient attitude; psychological aspect; questionnaire; self concept; socioeconomics; statistics; telephone Beliefs; Disease concept; Gambling; Untreated recoveries

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66758

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Gambling Studies

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s10899-010-9231-z