Journal article
The Prevalence and Correlates of Gambling in Australian Secondary School Students
M Freund, N Noble, D Hill, V White, T Evans, C Oldmeadow, N Guerin, R Sanson-Fisher
Journal of Gambling Studies | SPRINGER | Published : 2022
Open access
Abstract
Youth gambling is associated with a range of harms. This study aimed to examine, among Australian adolescents, the prevalence of gambling (ever, in the last month, at-risk and problem), the most frequent gambling types and modalities, and to explore the student characteristics associated with gambling in the last month and with at-risk or problem gambling. Students aged 12–17 years from Victoria and Queensland answered gambling questions as part of the Australian Secondary School Alcohol and Drug (ASSAD) Survey in 2017. The ASSAD also included a series of questions about smoking, alcohol and other drug use, and mental health. A total of 6377 students from 93 schools were included in analysis..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This work was supported by funding from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and infrastructure funding from the Hunter Medical Research Institute. Dr Megan Freund is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Translating Research into Practice Fellowship. ASSAD data collection was funded by state and territory Cancer Councils and health departments, and the Australian Government Department of Health. Cancer Council Victoria managed the national survey. The State Governments of both Victoria and Queensland, Cancer Council Victoria and Cancer Council Queensland funded the conduct of the ASSAD survey in each of their States. We would also like to acknowledge staff from the Cancer Council Victoria and the Cancer Council Queensland for implementing the survey in the participating schools.