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Epidemiological study of gambling games and associated factors in the university population, of Manizales University, Colombia 2010

Estudio epidemiológico sobre juegos de azar y factores asociados en población universitaria de la universidad de Manizales , Colombia, 2010





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Castaño, S., Castaño Castrillón, J. J., Cañón, S. C., Murillo, M., Rodríguez, P., & Velásquez, J. (2011). Epidemiological study of gambling games and associated factors in the university population, of Manizales University, Colombia 2010. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 11(2), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.2.818.2011
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Castaño, S., Castaño Castrillón, J. J., Cañón, S. C., Murillo, M., Rodríguez, P., & Velásquez, J. (2011). Epidemiological study of gambling games and associated factors in the university population, of Manizales University, Colombia 2010. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 11(2), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.2.818.2011

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Santiago Castaño
José Jaime Castaño Castrillón
Sandra Constanza Cañón
Manuel Murillo
Paulina Rodríguez
Juan Velásquez

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Background: Gambling is defined as any activity that consists in jeopardizing a valuable object hoping to get another with a higher value. Pathological gambling presents at the
moment an important problem in mental health that carries a big number of problems at personal, familiar and social level.
Methods and materials: In the current study is analyzed the frequency of gambling practice and related factors in undergraduates of the Universidad de Manizales in
2010, in a selected sample of 305 students from which where analyzed variables such as genre, age, faculty, socioeconomic stratum, weekly incomes, type of game and its frequency, consumption of alcohol, cigarette and drugs, family function and others. For the evaluation of pathological gamblers the F.A.J.E.R questionnaire (not gambler, gambler with risk, dependent gambler) was used. Results: The results show that 53.3% of students practice some gambling. According to the F.A.J.E.R questionnaire 7.6% are considered dependent gamblers and 13.6% are risk gamblers. A significant association was found between the type of gambler and the genre (p=0,000), faculty (p=0,017), family antecedent of pathological gambling
(p=0,000), alcohol consumption (p=0,000), family function (p=0,011), drugs consumption (p=0,020), cigarette consumption (p=0,042).

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