CAMH Study Find | Teens are gambling online at a significantly higher rate than previously reported

Nearly 10 per cent are gambling online, and more than 40 per cent are gambling in any form

TORONTO, March 30, 2016 – Nearly 10 per cent of teens in three Canadian provinces said they had gambled online in the past three months, according to a new study by researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the University of Waterloo. It’s the first Canadian-based study to find such high levels of online gambling among youth.

Of all adolescents surveyed, 42 per cent reported that they had gambled money or something of value in offline (land-based) gambling or online gambling. Popular gambling activities included: a dare or challenge (22 per cent), instant-win or scratch tickets (14 per cent), games of skill, such as pool or darts (12 per cent), offline sports pools (9 per cent), and cards, such as poker and black jack (9 per cent). 

Link | http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2933-0

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