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ReviewBJPsych international2021

Gambling in Malaysia: an overview.

Balan Rathakrishnan, Sanju George

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Review in BJPsych international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Gambling and governmental responsibilities.BJPsych international · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Balan RathakrishnanAssociate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Malaysia University of Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Email: rbhalan@ums.edu.my.
Sanju GeorgeProfessor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Rajagiri School of Behavioural Sciences and Research, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Kochi, Kerala, India. Email: sanjugeorge531@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4213-2258

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many forms of gambling are legal and popular in Malaysia. Despite this, in Malaysia, research into gambling is limited and there is no coherent strategy to tackle gambling-related harms. This paper summarises the gambling landscape of Malaysia, law governing gambling and research done so far and gives some recommendations on the way forward.

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GamblinglawMalaysiaresearch

Identifiers

PMID34287394
PMCPMC8274414

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