Research project Responding to and Reducing Gambling Problems Studies (REGAPS)
This programme offers an overall coverage of topics of immediate interest in Swedish gambling research today, based on five different work packages.
During the last decades, gambling excessively for money has been increasingly recognized as a problem (often referred to as "problem gambling", “gambling disorder” or "pathological gambling") in most parts of the world, especially in countries where the opportunities to gamble have expanded on the internet. At the same time, the ability to control domestic gambling through legislation, tax rules and other measures has decreased. With growing availability, there has also been an increasing need to understand the ensuing individual and social impacts of gambling.
Project description
This programme offers an overall coverage of topics of immediate interest in Swedish gambling research today, based on five different work packages.
REGAPS Work packages
WP 1. Experiences, formation of and obstacles for help-seeking in the case of gambling problems
WP 2. Measurement: screening, problem characterization and treatment follow-up
WP 3. Problem gambling and psychiatric comorbidity – a matter of gender and socio-demographic status
WP 4. Swedish gambling policy development and impact
WP 5. International comparisons and cooperation
Project members
Project managers
Jenny Cisneros Örnberg
Head of Department/Lecturer
Members
Susanna Alexius
Forskare
Anne H Berman
Associate professor
Per Binde
Researcher
Katya Gonzalez Diaz
Doktorand
David Anders Forsström
Researcher
Ludwig Kraus
Reseacher
Olof Molander
Researcher
Robin G W Room
Emeritus
Eva Samuelsson
Senior lecturer, associate professor
Johan Svensson
Guest Researcher
Kristina Sundqvist
Researcher
Jukka Törrönen
Professor
Rachel A Volberg
Research professor
Håkan Wall
Researcher
Peter Wennberg
Professor