@article{ref1,
title="Association between gambling and self-harm: a scoping review",
journal="Addiction research and theory",
year="2021",
author="Gray, Heather M. and Edson, Timothy C. and Nelson, Sarah E. and Grossman, Alessandra B. and LaPlante, Debi A.",
volume="29",
number="3",
pages="183-195",
abstract="PURPOSE We conducted a scoping review to map existing research of the potential link between gambling and self-harm. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: We searched eight electronic databases and retrieved 190 studies that met our inclusion criteria. <br><br>RESULTS: Nearly 90% of studies were cross-sectional. Authors most commonly sampled people seeking professional treatment or other help for problem gambling or other substance use/mental health conditions (n = 103, 54.2%). Eighty-two studies (43.2%) provided descriptive analysis only, 50 (26.3%) used a bivariate test to study the direct association between gambling and self-harm, and 58 studies (30.5%) used a multivariate test to account for factors, such as psychiatric conditions, that might partly account for any relationship between gambling and self-harm. Because gambling and self-harm are both multidimensional concepts, we delineated specific categories and mapped the available research according to these categories. We found that most frequently, studies assessed the connection between the presence/severity of problem gambling and suicide attempts (n = 108; 56.8%). Studies of non-suicidal self-harm were rare. When we grouped studies according to both their analytic strategies and their findings, we found that the single largest group of studies (n = 33, 17.4%) were those that reported a positive association between gambling and self-harm within multivariate models. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that meta-analytic work, particularly of the association between problem gambling and suicide attempts, is feasible. On a practical level, these findings indicate that people experiencing problem gambling should be screened for self-harm risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1606-6359",
doi="10.1080/16066359.2020.1784881",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2020.1784881"
}