ArticleComprehensive psychiatry2017
Gambling disorder, DSM-5 criteria and symptom severity.
Article in Comprehensive psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Psychological aspects of infertility. A systematic review.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Pooled it
- Gambling Disorder as a Behaviorally Driven Systemic Medical Condition: From Reward Circuitry to Multi-System Morbidity.Clinics and practice · 2026Review
- Assessment of Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Gambling Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Clinics and practice · 2026Review
- Clinical Characteristics and Symptom Severity in Patients with Gambling Disorder in Japan.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Personality and impulsivity traits associated with problematic online gaming and poker playing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Addiction to Cosmetic Procedures: A Scoping Literature Review.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025Article
- Gambling disorders and drugs: a disproportionality analysis in the WHO pharmacovigilance database.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Article
- Validation of the Chinese version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for Pathological Gambling for individuals with gambling disorder in Mainland China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Rethinking cutoff values for the South Oaks Gambling Screen: Sex-specific insights and DSM-5 severity adjustments in Gambling Disorder assessment.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Network analysis of DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder: considering sex differences in a large clinical sample.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Assessing gambling disorder using frequency- and time-based response options: A Rasch analysis of the gambling disorder identification test.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Article
- An Empirical Attempt to Operationalize Chasing Losses in Gambling Utilizing Account-Based Player Tracking Data.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Clinical Differences of mild, Moderate, and Severe Gambling Disorder in a Sample of Treatment Seeking Pathological Gamblers in Sweden.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Roles for Alexithymia, Emotion Dysregulation and Personality Features in Gambling Disorder: A Network Analysis.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Serotonergic and dopaminergic control of impulsivity in gambling disorder.Addiction biology · 2023Article
- Applying the DSM-5 Criteria for Gambling Disorder to Online Gambling Account-Based Tracking Data: An Empirical Study Utilizing Cluster Analysis.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
- Development and Psychometric Properties of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument of Health-Related Quality of Life Specific to Patients with Gambling Disorder: The Gambling Quality of Life Scale (GQoLS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gambling, Gaming, and Internet Behavior in a Sexual Minority Perspective. A Cross-Sectional Study in Seven European Countries.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Multidimensional Structure of Problem Gambling: An Evaluation of Four Gambling Categorization Instruments from an International Online Survey of Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionGambling disorder (GD) is a prevalent psychiatric condition whose severity is typically defined by the number of DSM-5 criteria met out of a maximum of nine. The relationships between the levels of gambling severity, thus defined, and other measures of psychopathology and everyday functioning are clinically important.
methodsBaseline data were collected in patients with GD, conducted from 2001 to 2016. Participants completed clinical interviews and questionnaires. The impact of disease severity (mild, moderate, and severe) on clinical measures was characterized using analysis of variance models.
resultsThe sample included 574 adults with GD, of whom 73 (12.7%) had mild, 184 (32.1%) moderate, and 317 (55.2%) severe GD. The moderate and severe cases, compared to mild severity group tended be older, had later age of onset, lost more money to gambling in the preceding year, had worse quality of life, had higher state anxiety and depressive scores, consumed more nicotine via smoking per day, and had lower venturesomeness scores. The moderate and severe groups did not differ significantly on these measures, however. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS) discriminated significantly between all three groups.
conclusionsSeveral measures of psychopathology and functional impact of gambling symptoms appear similar between moderate and severe GD cases, while mild cases are clearly differentiated from moderate and severe cases. Thus, the current working definition of GD symptom severity boundaries has important limitations in terms of potential clinical utility.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.