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Gambling-related suicide and serious suicide attempts in the United Kingdom: a psychological autopsy and qualitative investigation
By Roberts A, Rogers J, James RJE and 12 others.
Abstract
Background
Gambling-related harms are an important public health issue, with suicide representing one of their most serious potential consequences. However, although previous literature has identified elevated prevalence of suicidality among people who gamble, less is known about how gambling-related harms develop and subsequently relate to suicidal crisis.
Aims
To characterise the events and circumstances preceding gambling-related suicide and serious suicide attempts, and to examine the interacting socioecological, environmental and psychological processes through which gambling-related harms may have been linked to suicidal crisis.