Gender differences in the associations between past-year gambling problems and psychiatric disorders |
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Authors: | Rani A Desai PhD MPH Marc N Potenza MD PhD |
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Institution: | (1) Dept. of Psychiatry and Women and Addictive Disorders, Core of Women’s Health Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA;(2) NEPEC/182, VA CT Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT 06516, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Psychiatric disorders frequently co-occur with pathological gambling. The extent to which co-occurence extends to subsyndromal
levels of gambling or differs between women and men is incompletely understood.
Aim To examine whether the association between psychiatric disorders and past-year gambling problems is stronger in women than
men.
Methods Data from the national epidemiological survey of alcoholism and related disorders (NESARC) (n = 43,093) were analyzed.
Results Increasing severity of past-year gambling problems was associated with increasing odds of most past-year Axis I and lifetime
Axis II disorders, regardless of gender. Associations between gambling problems and major depression, dysthymia, panic disorder,
and nicotine dependence were statistically stronger in women than in men.
Conclusions A severity-related association exists between past-year gambling problems and psychiatric disorders. The stronger associations
in women suggest that gambling research, prevention and treatment efforts consider gender differences. |
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Keywords: | gambling disorders comorbidity gender psychiatric disorders |
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