Seeking Treatment for Gambling - a 10-year Retrospective Clinical and Register Study of Gambling Patterns and Physical and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients With Gambling Disorder

For all patients seeking treatment during the full 10-year history of the facility (December, 2015-November, 2025), the following variables are gathered and described and studied with respect to associations with one another:

• Age
• Legal gender
• Tobacco use and alcohol problems requiring treatment
• Problematic gambling type(s), such as sports betting, online casino, horse race betting, land-based electronic gambling machines, bingo, and gambling within videogames.
• History of voluntary self-exclusion from gambling on the Swedish nationwide system for self-exclusion from licensed gambling operators (the so-called 'Spelpaus' system)
• Living conditions (housing) and socio-economic conditions (over-indebtedness, history of enforcement agency contacts, granted debt settlement)
• Current employment status (unemployed, degree of employment)
• Co-morbid psychiatric and physical disorders
• Prescribed medications
• Emergency hospital visits for mental health disorders (at psychiatric emergency units)
• In-patient psychiatric treatment episodes (including duration of hospitalisations)
• Routes of referral to the gambling disorder treatment unit (self-referral, primary care, occupational health care, psychiatric units, social services, health care unit for physical disease, or other units)

Inclusion criteria

• Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden, Dec, 2015-Nov, 2025

Exclusion criteria

• Treatment occasions considered, after chart review, to not have detected any need for problem gambling assessment or intervention.