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

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2011

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Cunningham, John
Cordingley, Joanne
Hodgins, David
Toneatto, Tony

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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

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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

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Journal of Gambling Studies

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Journal article

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