Swelogs is a research programme conducted and financed by the Public Health Agency of Sweden. The overarching goal of the project is to develop knowledge and methods that can prevent gambling problems. The study comprises an epidemiological study path and an in-depth study path with several measurement points in each and also a follow-up study where people from a previous study eleven years earlier are re-interviewed.
This report presents the results from the first wave of the epidemiological study path. Results from Wave One come from the cross-sectional study (prevalence study) and give a detailed account of gambling prevalence, the gambling situation in different subgroups, problem gambling, and the relationship between gambling problems and health. Findings from Wave Two (2009–2010), the incidence study, describes changes with regard to gambling problems in the population over a one-year period and how this co-varies with changes in health.
