Published in BJPsych Open, this is the first UK study to use routinely collected NHS data to identify factors that may predict suicide among people with gambling problems. Using anonymous health care records from Wales covering 30 years (1993–2023) via the SAIL Databank, researchers compared 92 people with a gambling diagnosis who died by suicide to 2,990 who died from other causes. They examined GP records, hospital admissions, outpatient appointments, and death records.
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