Table 3.
Demographic characteristics of participants with bipolar disorder categorised by severity of risk of problem gambling
| Risk of problem gambling |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate or severe (n = 67)a |
No or low risk (n = 568)a |
U or χ2 | P | |
| Age at interview, years | ||||
| Median | 40 | 46 | U = 15319.0 | 0.017* |
| IQR (range) | 14 (18–66) | 18 (18–76) | ||
| Gender, n (%) | ||||
| Male | 25 (37) | 154 (27) | χ2 = 3.081 | 0.086 |
| Female | 42 (63) | 414 (73) | ||
| Marital history, n (%) | ||||
| Has married | 52 (88) | 436 (86) | χ2 = 0.174 | 0.841 |
| Has never married | 7 (12) | 70 (14) | ||
| Highest education, n (%)b | ||||
| No secondary education qualifications | 5 (8) | 44 (8) | χ2 = 2.371 | 0.499 |
| CSE/O-level/GCSE | 14 (21) | 124 (22) | ||
| A-level/AS-level | 24 (36) | 144 (25) | ||
| Degree | 22 (33) | 206 (36) | ||
| Highest occupation, n (%) | ||||
| Professional | 37 (58) | 374 (72) | χ2 = 7.696 | 0.021* |
| Service industry | 24 (38) | 139 (27) | ||
| Never worked | 3 (5) | 7 (1) | ||
| Method of recruitment, n (%) | ||||
| Systematic | 16 (25) | 132 (24) | χ2 = 0.007 | 1.000 |
| Non-systematic | 48 (75) | 406 (76) | ||
IQR, interquartile range.
a.
Numbers vary because of missing data.
b.
Grades of UK secondary education are specified as GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; O-level, ordinary level; A-level, advanced level; AS-level, advanced subsidiary level.
*
P<0.05.