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Conference Paper: Completed suicide and suicidal behaviour among people with heavy gambling behaviours
| Title | Completed suicide and suicidal behaviour among people with heavy gambling behaviours |
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| Issue Date | 2015 |
| Citation | The 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP 2015), Montreal, Canada, 16-20 June 2015. How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Internationally, the average rates of past year problem gambling range between 0.5% and 7.6% with an average of 2.3%; the lowest rates are observed in Europe and the highest rates in Asia such as Macao, Singapore and Hong Kong [1-3]. The most tragic outcomes of heavy gambling are completed suicide. There are limited studies about suicide and gambling. Two Coroner’s Court record-based descriptive studies on suicides with gambling behaviour from Australia [4] and Canada [5] suggested that gambling was a crucial risk factor for suicide. Two studies from the United States examined suicide rates in counties with ... |
| Description | Congress Theme: New Discoveries and Technologies in Suicide Prevention Session - OP17-1L: Mental Illness, Gambling and Other Risk Factors |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215762 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Wong, PWC | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:38:08Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:38:08Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 28th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP 2015), Montreal, Canada, 16-20 June 2015. | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215762 | - |
| dc.description | Congress Theme: New Discoveries and Technologies in Suicide Prevention | - |
| dc.description | Session - OP17-1L: Mental Illness, Gambling and Other Risk Factors | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Internationally, the average rates of past year problem gambling range between 0.5% and 7.6% with an average of 2.3%; the lowest rates are observed in Europe and the highest rates in Asia such as Macao, Singapore and Hong Kong [1-3]. The most tragic outcomes of heavy gambling are completed suicide. There are limited studies about suicide and gambling. Two Coroner’s Court record-based descriptive studies on suicides with gambling behaviour from Australia [4] and Canada [5] suggested that gambling was a crucial risk factor for suicide. Two studies from the United States examined suicide rates in counties with ... | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, IASP 2015 | - |
| dc.title | Completed suicide and suicidal behaviour among people with heavy gambling behaviours | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Wong, PWC: paulw@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Wong, PWC=rp00591 | - |
| dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 248540 | - |