Ethnicity as a risk factor for gambling disorder: a large-scale study linking data from the Norwegian patient registry with the Norwegian social insurance database

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Aarestad, SH, Erevik, EK, Smith, ORF, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Leino, TM, Mentzoni, RA and Pallesen, S, 2023. Ethnicity as a risk factor for gambling disorder: a large-scale study linking data from the Norwegian patient registry with the Norwegian social insurance database. BMC Psychology, 11: 355. ISSN 2050-7283

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01391-0

Abstract

Background: The study investigated ethnicity as a risk factor for gambling disorder (GD), controlling for demographics, citizenship, and years of residency in Norway.

Methods: The sample comprised 65,771 individuals from a national patient registry (n = 35,607, age range 18–88 years) and a national social insurance database in Norway (n = 30,164, age rage 18–98 years). The data covered the period from 2008 to 2018.

Results: The results showed that when controlling for age and sex, ethnic minorities were overall less likely than those born in Norway to be diagnosed with GD (odds ratio [OR] ranging from 0.293 to 0.698). After controlling for citizenship and years of residency in Norway, the results were reversed and indicated that ethnic minorities were overall more likely to be diagnosed with GD (OR ranging from 1.179 to 3.208).

Conclusion: The results suggest that citizenship and years of residency are important variables to account for when assessing the relationship between ethnicity and being diagnosed with GD. Our results may be explained by people from ethnic minority groups being more likely to experience gambling problems but less likely to seek contact with healthcare services for gambling problems.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	BMC Psychology
Creators:	Aarestad, S.H., Erevik, E.K., Smith, O.R.F., Griffiths, M.D., Leino, T.M., Mentzoni, R.A. and Pallesen, S.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	25 October 2023
Volume:	11
ISSN:	2050-7283
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1186/s40359-023-01391-0 DOI 1826835 Other
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Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	01 Nov 2023 10:12
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2023 16:01
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50183