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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018

Who Are the Subjects with Gambling-Related Problems Requiring Treatment? A Study in Northern Italy.

Raimondo Maria Pavarin, Angelo Fioritti, Silvia Marani, Daniele Gambini, Elsa Turino, Antonella Piazza

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prevalence of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders in problem gambling: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024
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  2. Incidence and predictors of problem gambling in first-episode psychosis: A prospective multicentre cohort study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raimondo Maria PavarinEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. raimondo.pavarin@ausl.bologna.it.ORCID 0000-0003-1403-3148
Angelo FiorittiEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. angelo.fioritti@ausl.bologna.it.
Silvia MaraniEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. s.marani@ausl.bologna.it.
Daniele GambiniEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. d.gambini@ausl.bologna.it.
Elsa TurinoEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. e.turino@ausl.bologna.it.
Antonella PiazzaEpidemiological Monitoring Center on Addiction, Mental Health DSM-DP, Azienda USL, 40100 Bologna, Italy. a.piazza@ausl.bologna.it.
Azienda USL di Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study analyzes data related to Hospital (HOS), Public Treatment Service Dedicated to Drug Addicts (SERD), or Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) clients with a first diagnosis of Pathological Gambling (PG) in the period 2000/2016 in Northern Italy. The aims were to describe trends and characteristics of pathological gamblers (PGs) and to estimate the prevalence of other diagnoses before or after the diagnosis of PG.

methodsParticipants aged over 17 years with an ICD-9 or ICD-10 PG diagnosis were selected.

results680 PGs were identified, mean age 47.4 years, 20% female, 13% non-natives, 30% had other mental disorders diagnoses, 9% had alcohol dependence syndrome, and 11% had drug dependence. Most participants with comorbid disorders were diagnosed before PG, with a more elevated prevalence regarding mental disorders. Almost seven years had elapsed on average between the first admission and the diagnosis of PG.

conclusionsThe results of this study highlight a growing demand for PG treatment addressed not only to SERD, but also to psychiatric and hospital services, based on the increase in SERD attendance from 2013. Many of them had already been treated for mental health problems before, but their percentage remained costant over time.

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alcoholmental healthpathological gamblingprevalencesubstance abuse

Identifiers

PMID29652821
PMCPMC5920454
OpenAlexW2797174127

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