Marital status and gambling disorder: a longitudinal study based on national registry data

Syvertsen, A, Leino, T, Pallesen, S, Smith, ORF, Sivertsen, B, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Mentzoni, RA, 2023. Marital status and gambling disorder: a longitudinal study based on national registry data. BMC Psychiatry, 23: 199. ISSN 1471-244X

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Abstract

Background: Marital status is a robust correlate of disordered gambling, but few studies have examined the direction of this association.

Methods: The present study used a case–control design by including all adults receiving their first gambling disorder (GD) diagnosis between January 2008 to December 2018 (Norwegian Patient Registry, n = 5,121) and compared them against age and gender matched individuals with other somatic/psychiatric illnesses (Norwegian Patient Registry, n = 27,826) and a random sample from the general population (FD-Trygd database, n = 26,695). The study examined marital status before GD, getting divorced as a risk factor for future GD, and becoming married as a protective factor of future GD.

Results: The findings indicated an 8–9 percentage points higher prevalence of unmarried people and about a 5 percentage points higher prevalence of separation/divorce among those that subsequently experienced GD compared to controls. Logistic regressions showed that transition through divorce was associated with higher odds of future GD compared to illness controls (odds ratio [OR] = 2.45, 95% CI [2.06, 2.92]) and the general population (OR = 2.41 [2.02, 2.87]). Logistic regressions also showed that transition through marriage was associated with lower odds of future GD compared to illness controls (OR = 0.62, CI [0.55, 0.70]) and the general population (OR = 0.57, CI [0.50, 0.64]).

Conclusions: Social bonds have previously been shown to impact physical and mental health, and the findings of the study emphasize the importance of considering social network history and previous relationship dissolution among individuals with GD.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	BMC Psychiatry
Creators:	Syvertsen, A., Leino, T., Pallesen, S., Smith, O.R.F., Sivertsen, B., Griffiths, M.D. and Mentzoni, R.A.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	28 March 2023
Volume:	23
ISSN:	1471-244X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1186/s12888-023-04697-w DOI 1747585 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	05 Apr 2023 08:20
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2023 08:20
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48696

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