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Quiz

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Nine quick questions about the last 12 months. It takes about two minutes, it runs entirely in your browser, and nothing you answer is sent or saved anywhere.

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Thinking about the last 12 months…

1.Have you bet more than you could really afford to lose?
2.Have you needed to gamble with larger amounts of money to get the same feeling of excitement?
3.When you gambled, did you go back another day to try to win back the money you lost?
4.Have you borrowed money or sold anything to get money to gamble?
5.Have you felt that you might have a problem with gambling?
6.Has gambling caused you any health problems, including stress or anxiety?
7.Have people criticized your betting or told you that you had a gambling problem, regardless of whether or not you thought it was true?
8.Has your gambling caused any financial problems for you or your household?
9.Have you felt guilty about the way you gamble or what happens when you gamble?

These are the nine questions of the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), developed by Ferris and Wynne (2001) for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and used by researchers and health services worldwide. The questions appear exactly as written in the instrument, which is why a couple of them use clinical wording. It's a screening tool, not a diagnosis, and a number can't tell you who you are. It can tell you whether it's worth a conversation.

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