ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
The Evolution of Gambling-Related Harm Measurement: Lessons from the Last Decade.
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- Weighing the Harm: Direct Elicitation of Gambling Harm Severity Through Expert Evaluation of Narrative Accounts.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Gambling Harms Statistically Mediate the Association between Risk-weighted Gambling Involvement and Wellbeing in a Population-representative Sample.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- The association between gambling frequency and risk of harm: Analysis using health survey data from England and Scotland.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Observational
- Measuring gambling harm in self-reported questionnaires: a scoping review.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Gambling Severity and the Use of General Health Care and Social Services: A Nationwide Population Survey of Service Use and Associated Factors.European addiction research · 2026Article
- How Does Problem Gambling Impact the Relationship Between Gambling Attitudes and Frequency?Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- Harm-to-self from gambling: A national study of Australian adults.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
- Validation of the 7-Item Domain-General Gambling Harm Scale (DGHS-7).Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Article
- Validating the short gambling harm screen against external benchmarks.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Benchmarking gambling screens to health-state utility: the PGSI and the SGHS estimate similar levels of population gambling-harm.BMC public health · 2022Article
- 18-Item Version of the Short Gambling Harm Screen (SGHS-18): Validation of Screen for Assessing Gambling-Related Harm among Finnish Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Gambling-Related Harms for Affected Others: A Finnish Population-Based Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Jurisdictions around the world have a self-declared mandate to reduce gambling-related harm. However, historically, this concept has suffered from poor conceptualisation and operationalisation. However, recent years have seen swift advances in measuring gambling harm, based on the principle of it being a quantifiable decrement to the health and wellbeing of the gambler and those connected to them. This review takes stock of the background and recent developments in harm assessment and summarises recent research that has validated and applied the Short Gambling Harms Screen and related instruments. We recommend that future work builds upon the considerable psychometric evidence accumulated for the feasibility of direct elicitation of harmful consequences. We also advocate for grounding harms measures with respect to scalar changes to public health utility metrics. Such an approach will avoid misleading pseudo-clinical categorisations, provide accurate population-level summaries of where the burden of harm is carried, and serve to integrate gambling research with the broader field of public health.
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