SWELOGS epidemiological study

2011-01-21

SWELOGS, Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study, is a research program, conducted and financed by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. The over arching goal of the project is to develop knowledge and methods that can prevent gambling problems.

An epidemiological study and an in-depth study with several measure points are planned in the time-span 2008–2014. The material for this report origin from the first measurement of the epidemiological study carried out November 2008 – August 2009.

The epidemiological study has ten purposes; including to measure the incidence of gambling problems and gambling addiction in Sweden, and to examine how these
co-vary with gambling patterns and social, health and economical situations. The study should also describe the gambling situation in the general public as a whole as well as in different groups and compare these results with the ones from earlier Swedish and international studies.

In order to measure how gambling problems and gambling addiction covariates with other factors response data from interviews and questionnaires have been analyzed with Statistics Sweden’s register data regarding education, income etc. The questionnaires contain questions about gambling, gambling problems, health, security, social relations, occupation, economy, living environment, relatives, help seeking and more.