Victorian Population Gambling and Health Study
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About the study
This study of gambling and health in Victoria will comprise a representative survey of 10,000+ Victorian adults.
The methodology represents a true public health approach to better understand harm amongst a range of gamblers, while avoiding an exclusive focus on problem gamblers. An estimated 85% of direct harm from gambling is occurring to low- and moderate-risk gamblers in Victoria, with the remaining 15% affecting problem gamblers (Browne et al., 2016). Our methodology extends key outcome measures beyond problem-gambling risk to also include gambling harm, and their relationships to gambling practices and health.
The present study will investigate problem gambling and gambling harm in the Victorian community by exploring the co-occurring and preceding conditions that affect Victorians and how they engage with gambling games. Our team includes some of the best recognised gambling researchers worldwide, and also includes professionals with decades of experience in telephone-based population health research.
We will provide quality-of-life measurements for gambling harm that improve upon past methods of simply counting harms. The study will enable comparisons of present data with past results, establish critical new outcome measures for future use, and address several previously unanswered research questions of major policy and public health relevance.
