The National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms in Great Britain approaches gambling harm according to Measuring gambling-related harms: A framework for action. This framework outlines many indicators of gambling harms in three domains: Resources, Relationships, and Health. There is also a second framework for measuring gambling-related harms among children and young people which includes developmental harms. Other works that GambleAware has supported on Measuring Gambling Harm are available on the GambleAware Research Publications page.
As part of the 2016-19 National Strategy, the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board set out a research objective to study suicide, one of the most serious possible gambling harms. This research was commissioned by GambleAware and resulted in the following three reports:
- Problem gambling and suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm in England evidence from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007
- Exploring problem gambling, loneliness and lifetime suicidal behaviours a cross-sectional study using the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007
- Scoping current evidence and evidence-gaps in research on gambling-related suicide
These reports are also available from GambleAware's research publications page.
Below are some snapshots of recent research articles on gambling-related harms, and search links to Greo's Evidence Centre.
| Understanding and Measuring Gambling Harm |
- The history of gambling harm as a public health issue (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2021)
- Problem gambling led to substantial costs in Sweden in 2018 (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- An indirect elicitation approach to assess the impact of gambling on health and wellbeing (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020)
- The importance of using scaled responses when asking about gambling harms (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Distinguishing genuine gambling harms from substitution effects (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020)
- Harms measurement: How do we measure population harm? (Greo White Paper, 2019)
- Challenges in measuring gambling-related harm (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2019)
- A discussion of how the Reno model complements a public health model for responsible gambling and harm reduction (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Adopting a public health perspective towards gambling and gambling related harms (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020, seminal article published 1999)
See more Evidence Centre resources on Understanding and Measuring Gambling Harm.
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| Money and Debt |
- Many women who visit homeless shelters and drop-in services have experienced problem gambling (Greo Research Snapshot, 2021)
- How common are gambling problems among people in poverty? (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020)
- Debt stress partly links problem gambling and mental health problems (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- People with problem gambling may frantically withdraw money so they can keep gambling (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Exploring gambling patterns that may contribute to failure to pay back loans (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Do people spend more on luck-based gambling during recessions? (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Online casino gambling and live sports betting are associated with problem gambling and being over-indebted (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Problem gambling among homeless clinic attenders in Australia (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Is gambling screening feasible in consumer credit counselling? (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- The relationship between gambling and homelessness (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2019)
- A brief review of consumer credit use and gambling-related debts (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2019)
- Gamblers’ financial management and debt experiences (Greo Research Snapshot, 2014)
- The relationship between gambling and credit use in the UK (Greo Research Snapshot, 2012)
See more Evidence Centre resources on Money and Debt.
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| Work and Employment |
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| Crime |
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See more Evidence Centre resources on gambling-related Crime and Deviance.
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| Relationships |
- Family gambling problems negatively affect Australians' physical and mental health (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- Is problem gambling passed from parent to child? (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- How problem gambling impacts the partners and families of gamblers (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- The experiences of people whose partners do not seek help for problem gambling (Greo Research Snapshot, 2020)
- How pathological gambling affects each partner in a romantic relationship (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Loved ones’ coping strategies that influence their partners’ problem gambling (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Factors associated with problem gambling and family violence (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Emotional regulation and coping strategies affect the mental health of family members of people with gambling disorder (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- What partners of individuals with gambling problems say about their relationship, family life, and parenting (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Review of how problem gambling affects partners, family, and friends (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2018)
- The impacts of problem gambling on family members (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2006)
See more Evidence Centre resources on the Family Impacts of gambling.
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| Mental Health |
- Investigating the relationship between physical and mental health and gambling in England and Scotland (Greo Report Snapshot, 2021)
- Different ways of coping with shame affect the link between depression and gambling (Greo Research Snapshot, 2021)
- A review of the link between gambling and self-harm (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020)
- The relationship between stress and gambling (Greo Knowledge Snapshot, 2020)
- Gambling harm among adults with health and social care needs (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Gambling disorder and other mental health problems in individuals in casino exclusion programs (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Temporal sequencing of problem gambling and other mental health conditions among Swedish men and women (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Did changes from DSM-IV to DSM-5 gambling disorder criteria result in different rates of co-occurring mental health disorders? (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Emotion regulation links problem gambling to depression in emerging adult gamblers (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- A review of the association between problem gambling and ADHD (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Emotion regulation in gambling disorder (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
- Gambling is associated with lower health-related quality of life (Greo Research Snapshot, 2019)
See more Evidence Centre resources on gambling and comorbid Mental Health Harms.
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| Community |
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| Suicide |
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See more Evidence Centre resources on gambling-related Suicide.
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See our Current Projects page for all National Strategy research projects currently in progress.
