N Kastirke 1 , H-J Rumpf 2 , U John 1 , A Bischof 2 , C Meyer 1 Show Affiliations »
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which the presence and number of symptoms of pathological gambling (PG), distinguished by region of origin (RO), differ. METHODS: Data was obtained from a nationwide telephone survey of 15 023 individuals living in Germany and aged 14-64 years. They were categorized according to their RO and the number of symptoms of PG (0-10 DSM-IV-criteria). RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of PG symptoms is 18.1% for people of the RO Turkey, 9.0% for those of the RO Yugoslavia and 6.8% for those without a migration background. Compared to the latter, the two-part count data regression method showed a higher chance of PG symptoms for the RO Turkey as well as a 70.3 and 87.2% increase in the number of symptoms for the RO Turkey and Yugoslavia, respectively. CONCLUSION: The RO could independently contribute to the presence and amount of symptoms of PG. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which the presence and number of symptoms of pathological gambling (PG), distinguished by region of origin (RO), differ. METHODS: Data was obtained from a nationwide telephone survey of 15 023 individuals living in Germany and aged 14-64 years. They were categorized according to their RO and the number of symptoms of PG (0-10 DSM-IV-criteria). RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of PG symptoms is 18.1% for people of the RO Turkey, 9.0% for those of the RO Yugoslavia and 6.8% for those without a migration background. Compared to the latter, the two-part count data regression method showed a higher chance of PG symptoms for the RO Turkey as well as a 70.3 and 87.2% increase in the number of symptoms for the RO Turkey and Yugoslavia, respectively. CONCLUSION: The RO could independently contribute to the presence and amount of symptoms of PG. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
Entities: Chemical
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Year: 2016
PMID： 27589245 DOI： 10.1055/s-0042-106645
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gesundheitswesen ISSN： 0941-3790