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ArticleJournal of gambling studies2019

Gambling Disorder in Male Violent Offenders in the Prison System: Psychiatric and Substance-Related Comorbidity.

Carolina Widinghoff, Jonas Berge, Märta Wallinius, Eva Billstedt, Björn Hofvander, Anders Håkansson

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Article in Journal of gambling studies, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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6 authors.

Carolina WidinghoffFaculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. carolina.widinghoff@med.lu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-7065
Jonas BergeFaculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Märta WalliniusFaculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Eva BillstedtDepartment of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Björn HofvanderDepartment of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Anders HåkanssonFaculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gambling disorder is an addiction that can cause major suffering, and some populations seem to be more vulnerable than others. Offender populations have a remarkably high prevalence of gambling problems and they are also over-represented in a number of diagnoses related to gambling disorder, like substance use disorders and antisocial personality disorder. Yet, there are few studies investigating gambling disorder prevalence and related psychiatric comorbidity in this group. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of, and association between, gambling disorder and other psychiatric diagnoses in a sample of young, male violent offenders. Two hundred and sixty-four male offenders, all serving sentences for violent crimes (recruited between 2010 and 2012) participated in this study and went through comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, including assessment for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition criteria. Sixteen percent of the participants met criteria for gambling disorder. Antisocial personality disorder, cannabis, cocaine and anabolic steroids abuse were significantly more common among participants with gambling disorder. The gambling disorder group also showed significantly lower educational attainment. Cocaine abuse and failure to graduate elementary and middle school in expected time were independently associated with gambling disorder in a regression analysis. This study confirms the previously described high prevalence of gambling disorder in offenders. The psychiatric comorbidity was high and the problems had started early, with lower educational attainment in the gambling disorder group. The findings stress the importance of increased awareness of gambling problems among convicted offenders and of gambling research on young people with delinquent behavior. There is a need of more research to investigate this further, in order to develop preventive strategies and treatment.

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PrisonsAdultAggressionAntisocial Personality DisorderBehavior, AddictiveComorbidityCriminalsDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersGamblingHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrevalencePrisonersSubstance-Related DisordersGambling disorderOffendersPsychiatric comorbiditySubstance use disorder

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PMID29971589
PMCPMC6517603

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