Professional search

This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of best practice methods when tackling stigma in gambling and adjacent sectors. The review summarised and synthesised evidence from 44 individual papers which covered best practice for designing, setting up, delivering and evaluating anti-stigma campaigns and wider programmes in sectors including gambling, mental health, HIV and dementia.

The Annual GB treatment and support survey is commissioned each year in order for GambleAware to have an up to date understanding of usage and relative demand for treatment and support for gambling harms across GB.

Just over 18,000 adults were surveyed in November 2022. In this most recent survey in addition to questions around treatment and support and some of the barriers and facilitators to accessing help, we also asked questions on the age participants were first exposed to gambling, the impact the cost of living crisis is having on propensity to gamble and relapse among those who have previously stopped gambling.

This short paper summarises the execution and evaluation of the World Cup Bet Regret campaign launched by GambleAware on the 14 November 2022.

We wanted to better understand women’s lived experiences of gambling, so we commissioned a consortium of IFF Research, the University of Bristol and GamCare’s Women’s Programme to explore this in detail. The aim of the research is to build knowledge about why women in Britain take part in different types of gambling, how women are affected by another person’s gambling, the effect this has on them and their lives, and their experience of support and treatment services.

Ipsos UK were commissioned by GambleAware to undertake a review of evidence to inform what works in safer gambling communications. The aim of this review was to conduct a synthesis of the available evidence to inform the general principles of best practice within existing public health communications and apply them to the area of safer gambling and gambling harm prevention.

This short paper sets out the extensive research programme and evidence base which has informed the development of the stigma reduction campaign.

A research paper focussing on Minority groups’ lived experience of gambling harms in Great Britain.