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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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• 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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• 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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• Study of gambling and health in Victoria: findings from the Victorian Prevalence Study 2014

  Sarah Hare - Schottler consulting

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation — November 2015

  Findings from the first prevalence study in Victoria since 2008. The Victorian prevalence study examines participation in gambling by product, frequency and risk groups. It provides demographic and risk group profiles crossed with product use and frequency.
  

  • comorbidity
  • stigma
  • treatment

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• Developing and validating a scale to measure the enacted and felt stigma of gambling

  Dr Phillip Donaldson, Dr Talitha Best, Ms Erika Langham, Mr Matthew Browne and Ms Anthea Oorloff

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2015

  This study investigated the stigma associated with gambling in the context of both internally experienced and externalised (perceived) stigma.

  • stigma

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• The stigma of problem gambling: Causes, characteristics and consequences

  Hing, N, Russell, A, Nuske, E & Gainsbury, S

  Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2015

  The foundation commissioned this research to determine the nature of problem gambling stigma, including perceptions of its intensity, how it is created and maintained, and who it affects and how.

  • stigma

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