Prevalence of psychiatric co-morbidity in treatment-seeking problem gamblers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: The findings highlight the need for gambling treatment services to undertake routine screening and assessment of psychiatric co-morbidity and provide treatment approaches that adequately manage these co-morbid disorders. Further research is required to explore the reasons for the variability observed in the prevalence estimates. PMID: 25735959 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry - March 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dowling NA, Cowlishaw S, Jackson AC, Merkouris SS, Francis KL, Christensen DR Tags: Aust N Z J Psychiatry Source Type: research