The following projects investigated people’s journeys towards, and away from, gambling harm.
Recovery, Relapse, Repeat: A multi-study exploration of gambling relapse, recovery, and continuing care
- Professor Nicki Dowling
- Deakin University
- $98,408
This project aimed to better understand gambling relapse and recovery trajectories and how to best support people who gamble as they attempt to recover from their experience of gambling harm.
This project involved two components. Qualitative interviews were conducted with clinicians about relapse experiences and aftercare responses, and a prospective cohort, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study was conducted with Australians in remission following treatment or ‘natural recovery’ to examine their trajectories in real life and in real time.
Journeys towards harm: A narrative study of gambling and gambling harm amongst young online sports bettors, from childhood to early adulthood
- Professor Nerilee Hing
- CQUniversity
- $79,496.96
This project aimed to explore journeys towards gambling harm among young online sports bettors in Victoria, to identify when and how these journeys towards harm can potentially be interrupted. Of key interest is how individual, socio-cultural, and environmental determinants have shaped sports bettors’ transitions to gambling harm as they have matured.
Using a qualitative approach based on the lived experience of young online sports bettors, in-depth interviews were conducted with Victorians aged 18-25 years, who were experiencing moderate to high levels of harm from their online sports betting. Through a life history method, the interviews collected narrative accounts of their gambling and sports betting experiences over time, as well as their lived experience of sports betting harm.
Journeys towards gambling harm: Exploring the personal, social and environmental context for young adults’ sports and horse-race betting and their experiences of harm
- Dr Anna Thomas
- Deakin University
- $99,702
This project aimed to investigate online sports and horse race betting among young Victorian adults who gamble regularly on these products online. It examined how gambling is initiated, when and how it becomes established and journeys towards harm. It used a socio-ecological framework to consider a mix of individual, relational, community and societal factors that influence gambling behaviour and harm from adolescence to adulthood.
This mixed methods study involved a prospective cohort, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study of young adult online sport and horse race bettors, and qualitative interviews with a subsample of these participants who have experienced gambling harm.
Mapping journeys into and out of gambling harm: assessing actionable predictors of onset, maintenance, cessation and relapse
- Associate Professor Alex Russell
- CQUniversity
- $72,214.44
This project aimed to map journeys into and out of periods of gambling harm throughout the life course and explore the factors associated with these transitions.
This project involved a literature review and an online survey of Australian adults who have gambled at some point in their life. Participants were surveyed using a life course calendar method.
My life in recovery: A photovoice study of people who have experienced gambling harm
- Dr Simone McCarthy
- Deakin University
- $49,895.80
This project aimed to understand the process of gambling recovery from a public health perspective by examining a range of social determinants that may create barriers or facilitators to recovery.
This study provides visual and verbal narratives about the recovery journeys of Victorians who gamble and affected others, using qualitative interviews and a community-based participatory photovoice led methodology.
An exhibition of photographs was held at the end of the project, bringing together key decision makers, and stakeholders to better understand how to support and empower those who have a lived experience of gambling harm.