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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: CNS Spectr. 2010 Jan;15(1):33–44. doi: 10.1017/s1092852900000286

Table 2.

Prevalence estimates of psychiatric disorders in the NESARC data, by AAD and gambling problem severity

No alcohol
abuse/dependence
Alcohol
abuse/dependence
Diagnosis Non-gamblers2 Low-risk gamblers At-risk gamblers Problem/pathological
gamblers
X2 p Non-gamblers Low-risk gamblers At-risk gamblers Problem/pathological
gamblers
X2 p
Major Depression 6.52 6.17 10.12 18.48 18.18 0.0011 15.85 11.03 14.43 8.83 10.62 0.0193
Dysthymia 1.7 1.74 2.39 6.63 5.46 0.1521 2.95 2.52 5.06 3.96 2.19 0.5376
Mania 1.24 1.73 2.06 9.14 16.39 0.0021 4.64 4.16 8.02 7.06 3.56 0.3223
Hypomania 0.84 1.24 2.69 1.73 11.81 0.0121 3.8 1.78 8.05 4.28 12.7 0.0085
Panic Disorder1 1.82 1.99 6.36 9.24 17.2 0.0015 4.56 3.5 4.63 2.31 3.24 0.3639
Social phobia 2.52 2.93 3.84 10.91 9.06 0.0359 4.04 4.29 6.91 6.62 2.83 0.4255
Simple phobia 6.35 8.3 12.4 18.76 37.2 <0.0001 10.36 9.54 14.56 27.17 6.91 0.0853
Generalized anxiety 1.85 2.20 1.93 9.19 6.97 0.0832 3.29 3.89 6.18 4.21 2.58 0.467
Drug abuse/dependence 0.87 1.16 2.07 3.91 9.89 0.0258 12.3 13.63 20.81 10.43 5.69 0.1391

Personality Disorders:
Avoidant 2.2 2.03 3.15 8.75 6.43 0.1033 5.21 2.31 9.88 11.72 25.89 0.0001
Dependent 0.45 0.38 0.15 2.05 6.56 0.098 1.34 0.86 2.05 4.72 3.77 0.2969
Antisocial 2.18 4.38 8.04 17.56 61.27 <0.0001 11.89 11.99 18.12 27.72 8.56 0.0439
Obsessive-compulsive 6.75 9.57 15.1 25.72 64.22 <0.0001 12.84 9.67 19.18 22.03 12.07 0.0109
Paranoid 3.57 4.46 8.4 24.77 39.3 <0.0001 10.92 7.54 15.74 28.38 18.24 0.001
Schizoid 2.67 3.69 5.06 15.09 30.2 <0.0001 5.48 3.32 8.79 17.28 14.12 0.0049
Histrionic 1.33 1.59 3.37 8.15 14.2 0.0048 6.2 4.79 15.57 25.09 15.11 0.0034
1

With or without agoraphobia

2

Numbers in cells represent prevalence rates of disorders within gambling group