Temporal stability of pathological scratchcard gambling among adult scratchcard buyers two years later

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-127

  De Fuentes Merillas, Laura ^a,b   Koeter, Maarten W J ^a   Schippers, Gerard M ^a   Van Den Brink, Wim ^a  

^a AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR ADDICTION RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DIS; DSM IV; Incidence; Instant lotteries; Pathological gambling; Prevalence; Recovery; Scratchcards; SOGS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0942301181     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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