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• Fact sheet 4: Gambling harm

  Victorian population gambling and health study 2018–2019 — May 2020

  This fact sheet explains the definition of gambling harm, how harm is measured, measuring harm by risk category and lists out various findings related to gambling harm.

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• Fact sheet 3: Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI)

  Victorian population gambling and health study 2018–2019 — May 2020

  This fact sheet explains what the PGSI is, the list of questions included in the PGSI, the four categories of gambling behaviours, and general findings based on PGSI characteristics in Victoria.

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• Fact sheet 2: Particpation

  Victorian population gambling and health study 2018–2019 — May 2020

  This fact sheet outlines gambling participation in Victoria, the popularity of different gambling products, and popular products by gender.

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• Fact sheet 1: What a population study can tell us

  Victorian population gambling and health study 2018–2019 — May 2020

  This fact sheet explains what a population study is, and how data from such studies can be used. It also outlines approach, and value of the Victorian population gambling and health study (2018–2019).

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• Victorian population gambling and health study 2018–2019

  Rockloff, M, Browne, M, Hing, N, Thorne, H, Russell, A, Greer, N, Tran, K, Brook, K & Sproston, K

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — May 2020

  This report details results from a large general population survey on gambling participation, gambling problems and gambling-related harm in the state of Victoria, Australia conducted between September 2018 and January 2019.

  The study is the third of its kind in Victoria. Previous studies were conducted in 2014 and 2008. The latest study differs from earlier surveys in that it includes new elements that better align the investigation with a public health approach through the consideration of gambling harm in the broader community.

  The study involved a mobile phone and landline survey of 10,638 randomly selected Victorians adults.

  • community
  • comorbidity
  • stigma
  • treatment

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• Australian young women's gambling behaviours: A socio-cultural investigation of gambling attitudes, beliefs, and consumption intentions

  Thomas, S, Pitt, H, Randle, M, McCarthy, S, Daube, M, Bestman, A & de Moel, C

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — April 2020

  The aim of the study was to explore the range of key determinants that may shape the gambling beliefs and behaviours of older adolescent (18–24 years old) and young adult (25–34 years old) women.

  • women

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• Factors that shape the gambling attitudes and behaviours of older adults in Victoria

  Thomas, S, Pitt, H, Randle, M, Balandin, S, Cowlishaw, S, McCarthy, S, Bestman, A & Daube, M

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, Melbourne — March 2020

  This study examined the gambling behaviours and attitudes of older adults in Victoria

  • pokies

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• Transitioning into and out of low- and moderate-risk gambling: predictors and profiles

  Merkouris, S, Dowling, N, Rodda, S & Youssef, G

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — March 2020

  This study investigated the characteristics of people who transition into, and out of, low- and moderate-risk gambling.

  • comorbidity
  • mental health

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• Responsible Service of Gaming training evaluation summary 2017-2018

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — March 2020

  Summary of the Responsible Service of Gaming (RSG) training evaluation findings.

  • training

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• Submission to the Australian Banking Association consultation on the use of credit cards for gambling transactions

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — March 2020

  The Foundation has made a submission to the Australian Banking Association consultation on the use of credit cards for gambling transactions. The Foundation recommends banning the use of credit cards for gambling. We are particularly concerned about the use of credit cards for online wagering. Race and sports betting are among the forms of gambling most associated with gambling harm. More than 20 per cent of people who gamble on these products are highly likely to experience harm. This group is the most likely to use credit cards to gamble.

  • submission

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• Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan November 2019 – November 2021

  November 2019

  Download "Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan November 2019 – November 2021" (PDF — 6.2 MB)

• Alfred e-referral form

  October 2019

  This is the client referral form to refer clients to the Alfred Mental Heath and Gambling Harm Service Program.

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• Annual report 2018–2019

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019

  The Foundation's 2018–2019 annual report was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on Thursday 17 October 2019.

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• The prevalence and correlates of gambling in secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, 2017

  Freund, M, Noble, N, Hill, D, White, V, Evans, T, Oldmeadow, C & Sanson-Fisher, R

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019

  This study explores attitudes, behaviour and exposure to gambling among secondary school students in Victoria.

  • advertising
  • pokies
  • sports betting
  • vulnerability
  • young people

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• Extent of, and children and young people’s exposure to, gambling advertising in sport and non-sport TV

  O’Brien, K & Iqbal, M

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019

  This is the first study in Australia, and internationally, to examine the extent of gambling advertising on sport TV and non-sport TV, and the extent to which young people in different age groups are exposed to it.

  • advertising
  • sports betting
  • vulnerability
  • young people

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• Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2019

  The Foundation has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. A key focus of the submission is ensuring gambling harm is understood as a mental health and public health issue, and that health services are better able to assist people with comorbid problem gambling and mental health conditions.

  • mental health

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• A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study

  Rodda, SN, Bagot, KL, Manning, V & Lubman, DI

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019

  This study explored strategies people use to stick to spending limits when gambling on pokies, and tested the feasibility and effectiveness of an ‘action and coping planning’ intervention offered in venues to help people stick to limits.

  • pokies

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• Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm

  Livingstone, C, Rintoul, A, de Lacy-Vawdon, C, Borland, R, Dietze, P, Jenkinson, R, Livingston, M, Room, R, Smith, B, Stoove, M, Winter, R & Hill, P

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019

  The purpose of this project was to explore potential policy interventions to reduce gambling harm, drawing on existing gambling research, and evidence from other areas of public health.

  • stigma

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• Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health

  The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — April 2019

  The Foundation is a partner in VicHealth's submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the role of improving mental health to support economic participation as well as enhancing productivity and economic growth. The Foundation highlighted the correlation between mental health conditions and problem gambling, and the social cost of gambling to Victoria.

  • mental health

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• Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

  November 2018

  This document provides a summary of the Local Prevention Program evaluation findings.

  The evaluation focused primarily on the results and impacts of 17 funded projects delivered as part of phase 2 of the program, which ran from December 2015 to June 2017. The projects were diverse and directed at a range of settings and populations, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups, Victorian Aboriginal communities, young men and workplaces.

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