Gambling in Greenlandic adolescents
Gambling has never been investigated in Greenlandic adolescents. High prevalence of gambling problems and a relation to other addictive behaviours has been found in adult Greenlanders. Greenlandic adolescents are daily exposed to gambling, for example, by selling lottery tickets, through advertises...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:209a88f5315a478183a1497d890fc800 2023-05-15T15:07:49+02:00 Gambling in Greenlandic adolescents Stine Emilie Junker Udesen Trine Lenskjold Birgit Niclasen 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577094 https://doaj.org/article/209a88f5315a478183a1497d890fc800 EN eng Taylor & Francis Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577094 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-3982 2242-3982 doi:10.1080/22423982.2019.1577094 https://doaj.org/article/209a88f5315a478183a1497d890fc800 International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 78, Iss 1 (2019) gambling greenland indigenous populations qualitative research screening Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1577094 2022-12-31T14:18:52Z Gambling has never been investigated in Greenlandic adolescents. High prevalence of gambling problems and a relation to other addictive behaviours has been found in adult Greenlanders. Greenlandic adolescents are daily exposed to gambling, for example, by selling lottery tickets, through advertises and electronic devices. The aim of this study is to investigate how Greenlandic adolescents perceive gambling, and to pilot test the Lie/Bet screening-instrument.Ten semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted for 31 adolescents, aged 12–16, from 3 schools in Nuuk, Greenland.The 31 adolescents have experiences with gambling. Whether they define a game as gambling depends on: 1) Whether the game is about playing with or about money, 2) whether the game is about earning items, 3) the gain/loss, 4) who they lose money to, and 5) the purpose. If the purpose is to have fun, it is not necessarily seen as gambling. None mentioned bingo as gambling, arguing that bingo is about having fun. Two recent trends were found to have reached Greenland: The close link between sports and gambling, and skin-betting. Additionally, the Lie/Bet screen was, with slight modifications, found to be useful as a screening-instrument among Greenlandic adolescents and it is proposed to be used in future studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health Greenland greenlander* greenlandic International Journal of Circumpolar Health Nuuk Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Greenland Nuuk ENVELOPE(-52.150,-52.150,68.717,68.717) International Journal of Circumpolar Health 78 1 1577094 |
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Gambling has never been investigated in Greenlandic adolescents. High prevalence of gambling problems and a relation to other addictive behaviours has been found in adult Greenlanders. Greenlandic adolescents are daily exposed to gambling, for example, by selling lottery tickets, through advertises and electronic devices. The aim of this study is to investigate how Greenlandic adolescents perceive gambling, and to pilot test the Lie/Bet screening-instrument.Ten semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted for 31 adolescents, aged 12–16, from 3 schools in Nuuk, Greenland.The 31 adolescents have experiences with gambling. Whether they define a game as gambling depends on: 1) Whether the game is about playing with or about money, 2) whether the game is about earning items, 3) the gain/loss, 4) who they lose money to, and 5) the purpose. If the purpose is to have fun, it is not necessarily seen as gambling. None mentioned bingo as gambling, arguing that bingo is about having fun. Two recent trends were found to have reached Greenland: The close link between sports and gambling, and skin-betting. Additionally, the Lie/Bet screen was, with slight modifications, found to be useful as a screening-instrument among Greenlandic adolescents and it is proposed to be used in future studies. |
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Stine Emilie Junker Udesen Trine Lenskjold Birgit Niclasen |
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Gambling in Greenlandic adolescents |
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