GambleAware has a key role to play in supporting and mobilising other partners in the research eco-system to undertake research, and to grow research capability across the field. GambleAware publishes its research to ensure it can be accessed easily and for free by anyone with an interest in the developing evidence base.
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Commissioned as a follow-up to GambleAware’s Annual Treatment and Support Survey, this report tests and compares alternative tools of measuring gambling related harms against the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) within GB. The PGSI is commonly used as a standard measure of gambling related harm despite having recognised limitations around its use of stigmatising language, its ability to capture harms accurately, and its inability to capture legacy harms. This report therefore examines how alternative tools compare against the PGSI, demonstrating inconsistencies and exploring how this impacts the prevalence of, and experience of gambling related harms within GB.
The Annual GB treatment and support survey is commissioned each year in order for GambleAware to have an up to date understanding of usage and relative demand for treatment and support for gambling harms across GB. Just over 18,000 adults were surveyed in November 2023. In this most recent survey in addition to questions around treatment and support and some of the barriers and facilitators to accessing help, we also asked questions on legacy harms for those who used to gamble, and the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on propensity to gamble. In addition, the different ways of estimating the number of people affected by gambling harm was explored.
This is a review of the latest evidence on gambling harms among marginalised communities, such as those experiencing homelessness, those experiencing unemployment, criminalised communities, older people, people experiencing mental health conditions, disabilities, or who are neurodiverse, and migrants in vulnerable circumstances.
This document was produced by GambleAware and outlines the evidence on why further regulations on gambling marketing are needed and what specific policies could deliver this.
YouGov, The Outsiders, University of Bristol, Behavioural Insights Team
This PowerPoint report provides a detailed overview of three phases of research to explore and test potential improvements to safer gambling messaging that are used on gambling adverts. This document provides findings more visually and includes technical details of the methodology (e.g., experimental design, messages tested, questionnaire).
YouGov, The Outsiders, University of Bristol, Behavioural Insights Team
This Word report summarises the findings from a research project to explore and test potential improvements to safer gambling messaging that are used on gambling adverts. This document provides an executive summary of the research findings; the full results are available in the accompanying research report.
Sherbert Research, CultureStudio Research and Family Kids & Youth
This is original research which builds an understanding about the lived experience of gambling harms among different subgroups of children and young people, including an understanding of their perspectives on gambling and how gambling impacts their everyday lives. The groups explored in this research include children under 11, children and young people who are affected others, and children and young people who are at a disproportionate risk of experiencing gambling-related harm.
