Sang-Gu Na, Young-Kyu Park, Young-Ah Choi, Sung-Min Cho, Kyung-Shik Lee, Gang-Seok Seo,
Sung-Won Park, Se-Jong Kim, Soo-Yeon Lee
Department of Family Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
health status indicators.
Methods: Surveys were conducted with visitors of the Korea
Racing Association in Gyeonggi-do, from
September 1 to September 24, 2017. We used the
questionnaire, which contains questions to assess the horse
racing addiction, mood depression, health-related quality of
life, smoking amount, alcohol dependency, etc.
Survey data were analyzed through t-test, chi-square test,
logistic regression analysis, and multiple regression
analysis by SPSS program (IBM Corp., Chicago, IL, USA).
Results: The pathological gambling group was 47.5% (n=38)
of the visitors, and they showed a different racecourse
use behavior compared to the normal group. In addition, we
found that the pathological gambling group
had a significantly different health-related quality of life
score and a depression score from the normal group,
and that the addiction score and the depression score had a
linear correlation.
Conclusions: Among the racecourse visitors, the ratio of the
pathological gambler was considerably high, and
the pathological gambling group showed different health-
related quality of life score and a depression score
compared to the normal group; especially, the depression
score has a significant correlation with horse racing
addiction. Therefore, the horse racing association and the
health authorities should recognize the seriousness
of the horse racing addiction, make an effort to select high
risk users, and prepare a program to prevent pathological
gambling.
Korean J Health Promot 2018;18(2):71-82
Keywords: Horse racing, Pathological gambling, Health
status indicators |