title: Internet gambling in problem gambling college students.
abstract: Internet gambling is popular in college students and associated with problem gambling behaviors. This study evaluated Internet gambling in 117 students participating in study evaluating brief interventions to reduce gambling; the brief interventions consisted of minimal advice, motivational enhancement therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (1-4 sessions). Compared to their counterparts who did not gamble via the Internet (n = 60), those who reported recent Internet gambling (n = 57) wagered in greater frequencies and amounts and reported missing school more often and more problems with family and anxiety due to gambling. Recent Internet gamblers demonstrated similar reductions in gambling over time and in response to the brief interventions as non-Internet gamblers. These data suggest that Internet gambling is common in problem gambling college students, and students who wager over the Internet can benefit from brief interventions.
authors: Calhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, MC-3944, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030-3944, USA, npetry@uchc.edu.
authors: Nancy M
authors: NM
authors: Petry
authors: Angels
authors: A
authors: Gonzalez-Ibanez
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult