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| Gambling habits among aged African Americans | | Author(s) | Mohsen Bazargan, Shahrzad H Bazargan, Mahfuja Akanda |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 22, no 3/4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 51-62 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Gambling ; Black people ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 80 independently living African American older people were selected from two Senior Citizen Centres providing inexpensive or free pleasure trips from Los Angeles to gambling sites in Nevada. Data collected in face-to-face interviews identified 64% as non- or occasional gamblers, 19% as light or occasional gamblers, and 17% as heavy to pathological gamblers. The data established a statistically significant relationship between gambling behaviours and psychological well-being, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, perceived health status, health locus of control, religiousness, and stressful life events. Primary health practitioners require training, to enable the early detection of gambling problems in at-risk older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010531215 A |
| Classmark | ET5: TKE: F: 3KB: 7T |
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