Sex differences in the rates of recovery, treatment-seeking, and natural recovery in pathological gambling: Results from an Australian community-based twin survey

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 425-432

  Slutske, Wendy S ^a   Blaszczynski, Alex ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Natural recovery; Pathological gambling; Sex differences; Treatment seeking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; RISK; SELF HELP; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADDICTION; AUSTRALIA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS;

AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 74949130251     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.5.425     Document Type: Article

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