1. Gambling among European professional athletes. Prevalence and associated factors.
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Grall-Bronnec, Marie, Caillon, Julie, Humeau, Elise, Perrot, Bastien, Remaud, Manon, Guilleux, Alice, Rocher, Bruno, Sauvaget, Anne, and Bouju, Gaelle
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AGE distribution , *BASKETBALL , *COMPULSIVE behavior , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *CRICKET (Sport) , *FOOTBALL , *GAMBLING , *HANDBALL , *HOCKEY , *MARITAL status , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RUGBY football , *SEX distribution , *VOLLEYBALL , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *PROFESSIONAL athletes , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ODDS ratio - Abstract
The article reports on a study which estimate prevalence of gambling among European professional athletes and explore factors that are associated with gambling practice and gambling problems in professional athletes. It states that self-completion questionnaire was designed for this study and socio-demographic variables, variables linked to gambling and impulsive behavior data were gathered. It mentions that instruments used for screening problem gambling were all validated.
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- 2016
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