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Gambling-Related Harm And The Prevention Paradox, Matthew Browne
Gambling-Related Harm And The Prevention Paradox, Matthew Browne
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Abstract (163 words)
The prevention paradox (PP) describes a situation in which a greater number of adverse events arise from lower-risk population categories, because they are more prevalent than higher-risk groups. There has been limited and conflicting evidence as to whether the PP applies to gambling-related harm.
We assessed the prevalence of 72 harmful consequences from gambling across four risk problem gambling risk categories. Respondents who had gambled on non-lottery forms in the past 6 months completed an online survey (N = 1,524, 49.4% male). The data were weighted to the known prevalence of these risk categories.
The prevalence of …