{"id":210,"date":"2009-01-24T05:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:24:50","slug":"severity-of-gambling-is-associated-with-physical-and-emotional-health-in-urban-primary-care-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/topics\/compulsive-gambling\/severity-of-gambling-is-associated-with-physical-and-emotional-health-in-urban-primary-care-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Severity of gambling is associated with physical and emotional health in urban primary care patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morasco BJ, Vom Eigen KA, Petry NM. <em>Gen Hosp Psychiatry<\/em>. 2006 Mar-Apr;28(2):94-100.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>OBJECTIVE:<\/strong> The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of  recreational and disordered gambling, and to identify its association with  health functioning, in urban primary care patients.<br \/> <br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/> <strong>MATERIALS AND METHODS:<\/strong> Data were collected from 574 adults presenting to an urban  primary care medical clinic. Participants completed the South Oaks  Gambling Screen, Short Form-12 Health Survey, Second Edition and  questions assessing demographic characteristics and frequency and intensity  of current gambling behaviors.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>RESULTS:<\/strong> Overall, 10.6% of participants  met lifetime criteria for pathological gambling, and an additional 5.1% were  classified as problem gamblers. Pathological gamblers and problem  gamblers reported more health-related concerns than recreational gamblers  and nongamblers on indices of physical and emotional functioning. Contrary  to prior research, recreational gambling was not associated with better  health.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>CONCLUSION:<\/strong> These data suggest that disordered gambling is  relatively common in primary care settings, and gambling severity is  associated with decreased health functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morasco BJ, Vom Eigen KA, Petry NM. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2006 Mar-Apr;28(2):94-100. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of recreational and disordered gambling, and to identify its association with health functioning, in urban primary care patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compulsive-gambling","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}