Table 6.
Outcome variables, significantly associated with veteran status, modeled as predicting problematic gambling severity
| No risk (0) | At risk (1) | Problem gambler (2) | Pathological gambler (3) | Regression models | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0) vs. (1) | (0) vs. (2) | (0) vs. (3) | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | OR [95% CI] | OR [95%CI] | OR [95%CI] | |
| Male (n = 630) | |||||||||||
| Lived with both parents | 451 | 80.66 | 16 | 67.59 | 4 | 100 | 1 | 100 | 0.50 [0.17–1.46] | n/a | n/a |
| Lived with other relative | 8 | 1.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Major traumatic event experienced (since 16) | 238 | 41.35 | 7 | 20.62 | 1 | 33.67 | 0 | 0 | 0.37 [0.14–0.98]* | 0.74 [0.06–9.21] | n/a |
| Physically attacked by partner | 86 | 14.92 | 5 | 24.44 | 2 | 39.74 | 1 | 100 | 1.81 [0.56–5.68] | 3.64 [0.45–29.54] | n/a |
| Veteran | 189 | 33.02 | 6 | 24.70 | 3 | 79.75 | 0 | 0 | 0.66 [0.22–1.98] | 8.10 [0.79–83.37] | n/a |
| Female (n = 141) | |||||||||||
| No significant outcome variables for female participants | |||||||||||
| >4 years service (n = 142) | a | a | |||||||||
| Lived with other relative | 5 | 3.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | |||
| Major traumatic event experienced (since 16) | 71 | 57.30 | 1 | 15.44 | 0 | 0 | 0.14 [0.15–1.30] | n/a | |||
| <4 years service (n = 114) | n/a | ||||||||||
| No children | 25 | 27.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | |||
Note. Percentages are weighted to account for complex survey design; case numbers are unweighted and may not therefore sum due to missing values. OR: odds ratio; 95% CI: confidence interval at 95%.
a
No veterans ascribed to the pathological gambler category.
*
Significant result where p < .05.