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- MEASURING GAMBLING AND PROBLEM GAMBLING: ALBERTA
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This study is funded by a research grant provided by the Alberta Gaming Research
Institute and is the third study in eight years to survey adult Albertans gambling patterns and
behaviours (Wynne, Smith, & Volberg, 1994; Wynne Resources, 1998). The 1994 report was
commissioned by Alberta Lotteries and Gaming with the intention of providing baseline data
for future government decision making as well as establishing the province’s problem gambling
prevalence rate. The 1998 report was a replication study prepared for the Alberta Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Commission designed to assess changes in Albertans’ gambling participation and
problem gambling rates since the publication of the first report. The 1998 study was part of an
ongoing review of AADAC’s broad strategy to mitigate the effects of problem gambling.
The above noted studies used the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) to determine problem gambling prevalence rates. While the SOGS was widely used in jurisdictions around the world for over a decade, scholars began questioning the efficacy of the instrument on the grounds that it was developed in a clinical setting, yet used in general population studies and because of a concern that the instrument contained unproven assumptions about problem gambling (Volberg, 2001).
In response to these and other questions about the SOGS, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse embarked on a three-year inter-provincial project resulting in the creation and validation of the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI) (Ferris, Wynne, & Single, 1999). Compared to the SOGS, the CPGI is more theory based, designed specifically for Canadian communities, and better able to discriminate between problem gambler types in general population surveys. So far, the CPGI has been used in a Canada-wide gambling survey (Ferris & Wynne, 2001) and in the provinces of Ontario (Wiebe, Single, & Falkowski-Ham, 2001) and Saskatchewan (Wynne, 2002).
The focus of this research project is twofold; that is, to use the newly-minted CPGI to describe the gambling practices of adult Albertans and to gain insight into the extent of problem gambling behaviour in this population. The results are intended to serve as a baseline measure for future Alberta problem gambling prevalence research, and ultimately, it is envisaged that these comparable studies will feed into a database that profiles gambling and problem gambling behavior across Canada.
The remainder of this chapter includes a brief update of changes to the Alberta legal gambling landscape since the 1998 study; it proceeds with a discussion of problem gambling as a public health issue, and concludes with an elaboration of the Measuring Problem Gambling in Canada project, which generated the CPGI.
Reference: The Alberta Gaming Research Institute
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