The relationship between Problem Gambling Severity Index scores and suicidality: Results of a 9-year cohort study of young United Kingdom adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Previous studies report cross-sectional associations between harmful gambling and suicidality. Longitudinal evidence is less common, but among young adults in the United Kingdom (UK), current longitudinal evidence highlights the specific association between increases in harmful gambling and subsequent suicidality. In a young UK adult cohort, we aimed to investigate whether harmful gambling, as measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), would be associated with concurrent and future suicide attempts (at intervals of one, four and five years). Furthermore, the four-year window was used to observe whether PGSI increases were a unique risk factor for suicidality, as has been observed before. In all instances, hierarchical logistic regression models expl

SUBMITTER: Bastiani O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12710842 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature