Once online poker, always online poker? Poker modality trajectories over two years.
Online gambling
Poker
Prospective cohort study
Trajectories
Journal
Addictive behaviors reports
ISSN: 2352-8532
Titre abrégé: Addict Behav Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101656077
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
29
08
2019
revised:
05
01
2020
accepted:
11
01
2020
entrez:
30
5
2020
pubmed:
30
5
2020
medline:
30
5
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Online poker is considered more at-risk than land-based poker in terms of intense gambling behaviors and gambling problems. The development of many online gambling sites has raised public health concerns about the potential increase in online poker players. Longitudinal studies are useful to better understand the evolution of gambling behaviors; however, very few consider online poker players. Using a prospective design, this study aims to identify online and land-based trajectories over a two-year period and the factors influencing those trajectories. Results are based on data collected at three time-points over the course of a prospective cohort study conducted in Quebec (n = 304). A latent class growth analysis was performed to determine trajectories based on the main poker modality played, either online or land-based poker. Multinomial multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine the correlates of poker playing trajectories. Over two years, three poker playing trajectories were identified, comprising two stable trajectories [stable land-based (51.5%) and stable online (36.3%)] and an unstable trajectory [unstable online land-based (12.1%)]. The second trajectory included online poker players at baseline who transitioned to land-based poker. Number of gambling activities increased the odds of being in the first trajectory as compared to the others. Severity of gambling problems was a significant predictor of the second "unstable" or the third "stable online" trajectories, but not for the first "stable land-based" poker trajectory. The majority of poker players remained in either the land-based or online trajectories over two years. No poker players transitioned from land-based to online poker.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32467840
doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100251
pii: S2352-8532(19)30160-9
pii: 100251
pmc: PMC7244906
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100251Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None.
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