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The present study examined adult gambling behaviours from a local perspective in order to assess the adult at risk and problem gambler’s profile stratified by genre and by different forms of game. 4773 Italian adults from 18 to 94 years old were administered a survey to assess socio-cultural information related to gambling behaviour and the SOGS to evaluate gambling behaviour severity. Logistic regression evidenced that both at risk and problem gamblers are associated with male gender, players that use to play to more than one game, gambling with strategy-based games. People with a gambler father or both parents who used to gamble were significantly more associated with problem gambling behaviour than participants with non-gambler parents. These results present adult profiles of at risk and problem providing a more clear understanding about the relationships between gambling behavior severity and type of gambling.
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For the design, management, and development of the present survey, Cesare Cavalera, Pamela Gusmeroli were funded from Atipica Cooperativa Social Onlus. Atipica has received funding from “Regione Lombardia”. The other authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
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The present study was in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The subjects were informed that their participation would be on an anonymous and voluntary basis. According to Article 2 of Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Biomedical Research ethics committee approval was not requested because this study is a anonymous and voluntary basis. (Explanatory Report to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Biomedical Research, Strasbourg, 30 June 2004. DIR/JUR2004. http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Reports/Html/195.htm).
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Cavalera, C., Bastiani, L., Gusmeroli, P. et al. Italian Adult Gambling Behavior: At Risk and Problem Gambler Profiles. J Gambl Stud 34, 647–657 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-017-9729-8
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