Gambling during the COVID-19 crisis - A cause for concern?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to worsen mental health problems in the general population, including increasing engagement in addictive behaviors. Here, we describe observations suggesting that the current crisis and its sequelae may worsen problem gambling. The current pandemic may impact financial and psychological well-being due to social isolation during spatial distancing, and these stressors in conjunction with substantial changes in gambling markets (land-based, online) during the pandemic may significantly influence gambling behaviors. This situation calls for rapid research initiatives in this area and preventive and regulatory measures by multiple stakeholders.

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Emily A. Holmes, Rory C O'Connor, V. Perry … (2020)

Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These priorities were informed by surveys of the public and an expert panel convened by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity, MQ: Transforming Mental Health, in the first weeks of the pandemic in the UK in March, 2020. We urge UK research funding agencies to work with researchers, people with lived experience, and others to establish a high level coordination group to ensure that these research priorities are addressed, and to allow new ones to be identified over time. The need to maintain high-quality research standards is imperative. International collaboration and a global perspective will be beneficial. An immediate priority is collecting high-quality data on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the whole population and vulnerable groups, and on brain function, cognition, and mental health of patients with COVID-19. There is an urgent need for research to address how mental health consequences for vulnerable groups can be mitigated under pandemic conditions, and on the impact of repeated media consumption and health messaging around COVID-19. Discovery, evaluation, and refinement of mechanistically driven interventions to address the psychological, social, and neuroscientific aspects of the pandemic are required. Rising to this challenge will require integration across disciplines and sectors, and should be done together with people with lived experience. New funding will be required to meet these priorities, and it can be efficiently leveraged by the UK's world-leading infrastructure. This Position Paper provides a strategy that may be both adapted for, and integrated with, research efforts in other countries.

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Wenjun Cao, Ziwei Fang, Guoqiang Hou … (2020)

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The outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact on global mental health

Julio Torales, Marcelo O’Higgins, João Castaldelli-Maia … (2020)

The current outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus infection among humans in Wuhan (China) and its spreading around the globe is heavily impacting on the global health and mental health. Despite all resources employed to counteract the spreading of the virus, additional global strategies are needed to handle the related mental health issues. Published articles concerning mental health related to the COVID-19 outbreak and other previous global infections have been considered and reviewed. This outbreak is leading to additional health problems such as stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms, insomnia, denial, anger and fear globally. Collective concerns influence daily behaviors, economy, prevention strategies and decision-making from policy makers, health organizations and medical centers, which can weaken strategies of COVID-19 control and lead to more morbidity and mental health needs at global level.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Addict Med

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Addict Med

Journal ID (publisher-id): ADM

Title: Journal of Addiction Medicine

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

ISSN (Print): 1932-0620

ISSN (Electronic): 1935-3227

Publication date (Print): 18 May 2020

Publication date (Electronic): 18 May 2020

Electronic Location Identifier: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000690

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Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (AH); Gambling disorder unit, Malmö Addiction Center, Malmö, Sweden (AH); CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Madrid, Spain (FF-A, SJ-M); Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain (FF-A, JMM, SJ-M); Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (FF-A, JMM, SJ-M); CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERSam), Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Madrid, Spain (JMM); Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA (MNP); The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, USA (MNP); The Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park Street, New Haven, USA (MNP); Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, USA (MNP); Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA (MNP).

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Send correspondence to Anders Håkansson, M.D., Ph.D., Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. E-mail: anders_c.hakansson@med.lu.se

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Publisher ID: JAM-D-20-00115

DOI: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000690

PMC ID: 7273946

PubMed ID: 32433365

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Date received : 23 April 2020

Date accepted : 03 May 2020

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