Seeking Treatment for Gambling - a 10-year Retrospective Clinical and Register Study of Gambling Patterns and Physical and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients With Gambling Disorder

Region Skane

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Gambling Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: Treatment uptake

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07488871

10-year gambling unit study

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective chart review and register study of all patients who sought treatment at Region Skåne gambling disorder treatment unit, from December, 2015, through November, 2025. Patients' problematic gambling patterns, gambling self-exclusion behaviour and existing comorbidities and medications, are studied in association with routes of referral, prior treatment contacts and diagnoses for mental and physical disorders in primary care and specialist care.

Full description

For all patients seeking treatment during the full 10-year history of the facility (December, 2015-November, 2025), the following variables are gathered and described and studied with respect to associations with one another:

Age
Legal gender
Tobacco use and alcohol problems requiring treatment
Problematic gambling type(s), such as sports betting, online casino, horse race betting, land-based electronic gambling machines, bingo, and gambling within videogames.
History of voluntary self-exclusion from gambling on the Swedish nationwide system for self-exclusion from licensed gambling operators (the so-called 'Spelpaus' system)
Living conditions (housing) and socio-economic conditions (over-indebtedness, history of enforcement agency contacts, granted debt settlement)
Current employment status (unemployed, degree of employment)
Co-morbid psychiatric and physical disorders
Prescribed medications
Emergency hospital visits for mental health disorders (at psychiatric emergency units)
In-patient psychiatric treatment episodes (including duration of hospitalisations)
Routes of referral to the gambling disorder treatment unit (self-referral, primary care, occupational health care, psychiatric units, social services, health care unit for physical disease, or other units)