National Helpline for Problem Gambling: A Profile of Its Users’ Characteristics

Table 2

Characteristics of gamblers using GR-Helpline stratified by age classes and gambling form expressed as percentage.

	15–24 years				25–44 years				45–64 years				≥65 years
Characteristics of; gambling behavior	Strategy-based	Non-strategy-based	Both	value	Strategy-based	Non-strategy-based	Both	value	Strategy-based	Non-strategy-based	Both	value	Strategy-based	Non-strategy-based	Both	value
	(%)	(%)	(%)		(%)	(%)	(%)		(%)	(%)	(%)		(%)	(%)	(%)
Frequency
Regular	94.7	84.4	94.4	ns	83.7	79.8	79.3	ns	79.6	84.0	76.8	ns	80.0	86.4	100.0	ns
Moderate	5.3	8.9	0.0		7.3	13.8	12.4		14.8	10.1	14.6		20.0	6.8	0.0
Occasional	0.0	6.7	5.6		8.9	6.4	8.3		5.6	5.9	8.5		0.0	6.8	0.0
Amount of money spent weekly
€1–1,000	94.1	94.9	94.7	ns	79.8	86.6	82.8	ns	78.9	84.2	85.3	<0.05	80.0	94.4	57.1	<0.05
€1,001–10,000	0.0	5.1	5.3		19.2	13.2	17.2		21.1	15.8	13.3		20.0	5.6	42.9
€10,001 or more	5.9	0.0	0.0		1.0	0.1	0.0		0.0	0.0	1.3		/	/	/
Amount of money lost
€1–1,000	18.2	5.5	0.0	ns	4.7	3.1	0.0	<0.05	2.8	2.3	2.8	ns	0.0	3.4	0.0	ns
€1,001–10,000	63.6	43.6	41.7		27.1	28.1	17.0		8.3	25.6	18.3		0.0	34.5	0.0
€10,001 or more	18.2	50.9	58.3		68.2	68.8	83.0		88.9	72.1	78.9		100.0	62.1	100.0
Presence of gambling indebtedness
No	88.6	82.3	88.5	ns	59.9	70.6	67.6	<0.05	57.4	68.1	55.7	<0.05	100.0	73.6	37.5	<0.05
Yes	11.4	17.7	11.5		40.1	29.4	32.4		42.6	31.9	44.3		0.0	26.4	62.5