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Measuring the adverse consequences from gambling

Read how we have developed new questions about adverse consequence from gambling which are included in the GSGB survey.

Published
25 July 2024

Last updated
25 July 2024 - Changes

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  1. Contents
  2. Background
  3. Introduction

Introduction

Gambling-related harm is defined as the negative impacts of gambling on individuals' resources, relationships, and health, affecting both people who gamble and those close to them (Wardle et al., 2018). One of the Gambling Commission's key licensing objectives is to ensure that children and vulnerable people are protected from gambling-related harms, and in our Evidence Gaps and Priorities we have highlighted the need for further research to establish the ways in which people may experience gambling harms and who is most at risk. To help address this evidence gap, we collaborated with National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and researchers at the University of Glasgow to develop and validate a set of survey questions that explore people's experiences of gambling and its associated consequences. These questions have been included in the new Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), which uses a push-to-web methodology to provide estimates of gambling participation on an annual and quarterly basis.

Consultations with stakeholders, including those with lived experience of gambling-related harm, have highlighted the variability in people’s experiences of gambling and its consequences. To reflect this variability and align with terminology used within established frameworks of gambling-related harm, our future publications will refer to these questions as assessing the ‘adverse consequences from gambling’.

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