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• Venue Best Practice Guide

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

  July 2016

  This guide highlights some of the excellent practices identified by the Venue Support Program in gaming venues across the state. These practices demonstrate a commitment to high standards and continuous improvement within venues.

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• Lessons for the development of initiatives to tackle the stigma associated with problem gambling

  Thomas, S., Bestman, A., Pitt, H., David, J., & Thomas, S

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — May 2016

  This research examined the effectiveness of anti-stigma initiatives in the areas of mental health, HIV/AIDS and gambling to understand the different appeal strategies used and to inform future anti-stigma initiatives for problem gambling.

  • stigma

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• Child and parent recall of gambling sponsorship in Australian sport

  Thomas, SL, Pitt, H, Bestman, A, Randle, M, Daube, M, Pettigrew, S

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — May 2016

  This study explored child and parent recall of sports betting and gambling brand sponsorship of Australian Football League, National Rugby League and soccer teams.

  • advertising
  • sports betting
  • young people

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• Fact sheet 3: How gambling harm affects health and wellbeing

  April 2016

  The researchers asked participants to assess the impacts of gambling harm on health and wellbeing with reference to other health conditions.

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• Fact sheet 2: The seven dimensions of gambling harm

  April 2016

  To measure gambling harm, the researchers focused on its outcomes and manifestations. They identified seven dimensions of harm experienced by people who gamble and those close to them.

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• Fact sheet 4: Distribution of harm

  April 2016

  This fact sheet explores the distribution of harm at a population level by aggregating the effects of harm among individuals.

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• Fact sheet 1: A conceptual framework of gambling harm

  April 2016

  This project consulted with experts and the community to develop a framework for measuring and assessing the impact of gambling harm in Victoria. The framework can help researchers, policymakers, health professionals and the community better understand and minimise the negative consequences of gambling.

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• Assessing gambling-related harm in Victoria: a public health perspective

  Browne, M, Langham, E, Rawat, V, Greer, N, Li, E, Rose, J, Rockloff, M, Donaldson, P, Thorne, H, Goodwin, B, Bryden, G & Best, T

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — April 2016

  The aim of this project was to systematically investigate gambling-related harm in Victoria and assess the aggregate 'burden of harm' with reference to different levels of problem gambling, and other comparable conditions. 

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• The Victorian gambling study: technical report - part three

  February 2016

  A series of secondary analyses were undertaken from The Victorian Gambling Study- A longitudinal study of gambling and health 2008-2012 (The Victorian Gambling Study). This paper is the third of a series of technical reports. The focus of this paper is on the interplay between social determinants, trauma and life events, social capital, and the level of gambling problems (PGSI score) in gamblers. Non-gamblers were excluded from the analysis. The purpose was to investigate a range of possible determinants (for example – trauma in life and upbringing, stressful life events, social capital and sociodemographics) to indicate which showed the strongest association with levels of gambling problems.

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• The Victorian gambling study: technical report - part four

  January 2016

  A series of secondary analyses were undertaken from The Victorian Gambling Study- A longitudinal study of gambling and health 2008-2012 (The Victorian Gambling Study). This paper is the fourth of a series of technical reports. The focus of this paper is on the interplay between social determinants, co-morbidities and the level of gambling problems (PGSI score) in gamblers. Non-gamblers were excluded from the analysis. The purpose was to investigate a range of possible determinants (for example - physical, mental health conditions, smoking, alcohol, socio-demographics) to indicate which showed the strongest association with levels of gambling problems.

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• The Victorian gambling study: technical report - part one

  January 2016

  A series of secondary analyses were undertaken from The Victorian Gambling Study- A longitudinal study of gambling and health 2008-2012 (The Victorian Gambling Study). This paper is the first of a series of technical reports.

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• Journeys through gambling: pathways to informal recovery

  Vasiliadis, S & Thomas, A

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — January 2016

  This study examines temporal benchmarks in informal gambling recovery pathways, looking at the broader context of the experience for individuals, and at the experiences of young adults.

  • treatment
  • young people

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• The Victorian gambling study: technical report - part two

  January 2016

  A series of secondary analyses were undertaken from The Victorian Gambling Study- A longitudinal study of gambling and health 2008-2012 (The Victorian Gambling Study). This paper is the second of a series of technical reports. The focus of this paper is to explore the relationship between the PGSI score and the social determinants and comorbidities in gamblers.

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• Response to AANA wagering advertising code

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — December 2015

  The Foundation has responded to the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) discussion paper on the development of a Wagering Advertising and Marketing Communication code. The proposed code would provide a robust self-regulation framework for advertising and marketing communication for licensed providers of wagering services. 

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• Submission to the Review of Illegal Offshore Wagering

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — November 2015

  The federal government has undertaken a review of illegal offshore wagering to investigate methods to strengthen enforcement of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth). The Foundation made a submission to the inquiry on 16 November 2015.

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• Fact sheet 7: Online gambling

  November 2015

  People surveyed were asked whether they conducted their different types of gambling online.

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• Fact sheet 15: Race betting

  November 2015

  About one fifth (20.63 per cent) of Victorian adults reported betting on races in the previous 12 months. This included any bets at the Melbourne Cup and Spring Racing Carnival, and on TAB Trackside virtual racing, but excluded sweeps.

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• Fact sheet 1: Study of gambling and health in Victoria Gambling problems in Victoria

  November 2015

  The Victorian prevalence study 2014 is a telephone survey of 13,554 Victorian adults who were selected randomly from the general population. There were 12,551 surveys using landlines and 1003 using mobile telephones. The study aimed to explore gambling and problem gambling in the Victorian population.

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• Fact sheet 2: Categories for risk of gambling harm

  November 2015

  The researchers used a questionnaire, or screen, called the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) to categorise study participants by the degree of gambling harm they are likely to be experiencing.

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• Fact sheet 6: Pre-commitment

  November 2015

  Pre-commitment is a system that allows gamblers to set time or money limits and to track their play. Gaming machine players were asked whether they would use pre-commitment if it were available on the day of the survey telephone call.

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