From: Responsible gambling among older adults: a qualitative exploration
Codes | Basic Themes | Organising themes | |
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1 | Quelling the need for immediate results | Delayed Gratification | Self –developed strategies to limit gambling related harm |
2 | Not participating in sport betting | Family interventions to reduce gambling harm | |
3 | Understanding of players odds in gambling activities | Perception of futility of gambling | |
4 | The house always wins | ||
5 | Understanding of the built in “house-edge” | ||
6 | One can’t make a living out of gambling | ||
7 | Setting loss limits | Setting Limits | |
8 | Setting time limits | ||
9 | Setting win limits/ quitting while one is ahead | ||
10 | Walking away from loss | ||
11 | Not letting losses affect you | ||
12 | Monitoring oneself and checking themselves if they gamble more than what they normally do | ||
13 | Having a sense of balance between spending and losses/winning | Maintaining balance | |
14 | Gambling is not the priority | ||
15 | Support groups | Help-seeking | |
16 | Support of religious elders and prayers | ||
17 | Self-help books | ||
18 | Cutting down or Quitting gambling | Abstinence | |
19 | Self-exclusion | ||
20 | Significant money lost in gambling by friends or relatives | Awareness of disordered gambling in others or in self | |
21 | Family relationships getting strained or families breaking up | ||
22 | Media coverage or awareness of people committing suicides due to gambling losses | ||
23 | Awareness of disordered gambling in the past in themselves | ||
24 | Awareness of addictive nature of gambling | ||
25 | Family members plead/ threaten the respondent to stop gambling | Pleading and threatening | |
26 | Family members find out the details of treatment centres and force the older adult to seek help to help them with their gambling problems. | Compel help-seeking | |
27 | Family members ban respondent from casino or other specific gambling venues | Family exclusion order |