Don’t Let an Opportunity Go by: Validation of the EIGHT Gambling Screen

Sullivan, Sean

doi:10.1007/s11469-007-9064-x

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“…Gender breakdown of PG was not reported. Riley and Oakes (2014) found a similar lifetime prevalence (52%) of PG (Levels 2 and 3) when surveying 105 male prisoners in South Australia using the EIGHT Gambling Screen (Early Intervention Gambling Health Test; Sullivan, 2007).…”

Section: Pg Prevalence Among Male Australian Prisonersmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…A 2-hr period was available for prisoners to attend once they had been notified by prison staff. On arrival, participants were given the EIGHT Gambling Screen (Sullivan, 2007), a valid simple and brief lifetime PG screening tool originally designed for use by GPs, but has since been used in more generalized populations including prisons (Sullivan, 2007;Sullivan, Brown, & Skinner, 2008). The EIGHT Gambling Screen correlates with other accepted PG screening tools such as the SOGS (Lesieur & Blume, 1987) and assessment by clinicians using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Problem Gambling Among Australian Male Prisoners: Lifetime Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Association With Incarceration and Aboriginality

Riley

Larsen

Battersby

et al. 2017

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Prisoners represent a group containing the highest problem gambling (PG) rate found in any population. PG is of particular concern among Indigenous Australians. Little data exist concerning PG rates among Indigenous Australian prisoners. The present study aimed to address this gap in the literature by examining the lifetime prevalence of PG among male prisoners, whilst identifying prisoners of Aboriginal background. The EIGHT Gambling Screen (Early Intervention Gambling Health Test) was administered to 296 prisoners across three male prisons in South Australia. Previous help-seeking behaviour and forms of gambling were also examined. Sixty percent of prisoners indicated a lifetime prevalence of PG with 18% reporting they were incarcerated due to offending relating to their gambling problem. Indigenous Australian prisoners indicated a significantly higher prevalence of PG (75%) than non-Indigenous prisoners (57%) and reported less than half the rate of help-seeking. Given the high levels of PG and overall low rates of help-seeking among prisoners, prisons may provide an important opportunity to engage this high-risk population with effective treatment programs, in particular culturally appropriate targeted interventions for Australian Indigenous prisoners.

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Section: Pg Prevalence Among Male Australian Prisonersmentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problem Gambling Among Australian Male Prisoners: Lifetime Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Association With Incarceration and Aboriginality

Riley

Larsen

Battersby

et al. 2017

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…In consideration of the high internal consistency of the CSPG (a = 0.93), and its demonstrated ability to detect positive cases of gambling problems while rejecting negative cases, the scale appears to be useful as a preliminary diagnostic screen. It may be a useful alternative to other short-scales (cf., Johnson et al 1998;Sullivan 2007;Blaszczynski et al 2008), because it does not ask potentially confrontational questions about gambling-related symptoms. In addition, the scale may prove useful as a research instrument to examine the relationship between consumption and gambling harm.…”

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Validation of the Consumption Screen for Problem Gambling (CSPG)

Rockloff

2011

J Gambl Stud

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A 3 item screen for problem gambling was developed based on a conceptual analogue of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test--Consumption (Bush et al. in Arch Intern Med 158:1789-1795, 1998); a brief screen that measures consumption rather than harm. Data were collected from an email panel survey of 588 men and 810 women (n = 1,398) across all states in Australia. Respondents indicated their consumption of gambling products using the 3 items of the new Consumption Screen for Problem Gambling (CSPG). Receiver Operating Characteristics curve analysis was used to analyze the performance of the new items relative to the Problem Gambling Severity Index (Ferris and Wynne in The Canadian problem gambling index: Final report, 2001). Results show a 98% probability that the CSPG score for a randomly chosen positive case of problem gambling will exceed the score for a randomly chosen negative case. In addition, a score of 4+ on the CSPG identified all 14 cases of Problem Gambling correctly, while only 7.3% of non-problem gamblers had scores of 4+ (sensitivity = 100%; specificity = 92.7%). Lastly, only 3.0% of respondents without any gambling problems had CSPG scores of 4+. The current study suggests that the CSPG, a brief consumption-based measure for gambling products, can quickly and accurately identify people who are likely to be experiencing gambling problems.

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“…Short assessment tools for problem and pathological gambling include the eight‐item Early Intervention Gambling Health Test (EIGHT Screen), 10,11 a reduced set of six items from the widely‐used South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), 12,13 the Brief Biosocial Gambling Screen (BBGS), a three‐item screen derived from the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule‐DSM‐IV Version, 14 a two‐item screen to detect gambling problems contained in the Case‐finding and Help Assessment Tool (CHAT), a multipurpose screening tool for use in primary care settings in New Zealand, 15,16 and the two‐item Lie‐Bet Screen 17,18 . While these are promising first steps, there are drawbacks associated with each of these brief screens.…”

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A Quick and Simple Screening Method for Pathological and Problem Gamblers in Addiction Programs and Practices

Volberg

Munck

Petry

2011

The American Journal on Addictions

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Despite high rates of comorbidity among pathological gambling, substance use disorders, and other psychiatric conditions, health professionals rarely screen their clients for gambling problems. We report on the performance of the NODS-CLiP, an existing brief, three-item screen for problem and pathological gambling, and an alternative four-item screen that demonstrates improved sensitivity, good positive and negative predictive power and invariance across key demographic groups. Given high rates of comorbidity, routine and accurate identification of gambling-related problems among individuals seeking help for substance abuse and related disorders is important. The original and the alternative brief screens are likely to be useful in a range of clinical settings.

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Don’t Let an Opportunity Go by: Validation of the EIGHT Gambling Screen

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Problem Gambling Among Australian Male Prisoners: Lifetime Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Association With Incarceration and Aboriginality

Problem Gambling Among Australian Male Prisoners: Lifetime Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Association With Incarceration and Aboriginality

Validation of the Consumption Screen for Problem Gambling (CSPG)

A Quick and Simple Screening Method for Pathological and Problem Gamblers in Addiction Programs and Practices

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