Racial-ethnic related clinical and neurocognitive differences in adults with gambling disorder.
Recent epidemiological data suggest that the lifetime prevalence of gambling problems differs depending on race-ethnicity. Understanding variations in disease presentation in blacks and whites, and relationships with biological and sociocultural factors, may have implications for selecting appropriate prevention strategies. 62 non-treatment seeking volunteers (18-29 years, n=18 [29.0%] female) with gambling disorder were recruited from the general community. Black (n=36) and White (n=26) participants were compared on demographic, clinical and cognitive measures. Young black adults with gambling disorder reported more symptoms of gambling disorder and greater scores on a measure of compulsivity. In addition they exhibited significantly higher total errors on a set-shifting task, less risk adjustment on a gambling task, greater delay aversion on a gambling task, and more total errors on a working memory task. These findings suggest that the clinical and neurocognitive presentation of gambling disorder different between racial-ethnic groups.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK; Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Samuel R
SR
Chamberlain
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, United States.
Eric
E
Leppink
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, United States.
Sarah A
SA
Redden
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Brian L
BL
Odlaug
Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Electronic address: jongrant@uchicago.edu.
Jon E
JE
Grant
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
Addiction; Cognition; GamblinG; ImpulsIvIty; Phenomenology; Race