Factors associated with disordered gambling in Finland

Table 4 Simultaneously analysed factors: socio-demographic characteristics, gambling related factors and perceived health and well-being and the severity of disordered gambling (Problem and Pathological gambling)

		Problem gambling^a		Pathological gambling^a
		n = 67		n = 39
	Factor	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Socio-demographic
	Male	2.48*	1.20–5.12	1.10	0.49–2.46
	15–34 years old	0.86	0.50–1.46	1.29	0.63–2.66
	≤12 years education	1.53	0.90–2.60	1.25	0.61–2.54
Gambling related
	Played slot machines, past 12 months	6.88***	3.05–15.56	4.70**	1.72–12.85
	Internet gambling, past 12 months	2.15**	1.26–3.38	2.88**	1.40–5.92
Perceived health and well-being
	Feeling lonely	3.47***	1.98–6.05	1.78	0.78–4.04
	Smoking daily	2.01*	1.15–3.49	1.58	0.74–3.37
	Risk alcohol, AUDIT-C	2.57**	1.43–4.63	3.09**	1.38–6.94
	Mental health problem, MHI-5	1.40	0.50–3.88	4.01**	1.41–11.43
Nagelkerke = 0,229

^aReference group: Non-problem gamblers (n = 3345); The data (N = 3451) were weighted based on gender, age and residency; Multivariate-adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis; * < 0.05, ** < 0.01, *** < 0.001; AUDIT-C, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, score for risk consumption ≥5 among women and ≥6 among men; MHI-5, the Mental Health Inventory, scaled into 1–100, clinically significant problem ≤52.

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