Completed suicide and suicidal behaviour among people with heavy gambling behaviours

Session - OP17-1L: Mental Illness, Gambling and Other Risk FactorsCongress Theme: New Discoveries and Technologies in Suicide PreventionInternationally, the average rates of past year problem gambling range between 0.5% and 7.6% with an average of 2.3%; the lowest rates are observed in Europe and the highest rates in Asia such as Macao, Singapore and Hong Kong [1-3]. The most tragic outcomes of heavy gambling are completed suicide. There are limited studies about suicide and gambling. Two Coroner’s Court record-based descriptive studies on suicides with gambling behaviour from Australia [4] and Canada [5] suggested that gambling was a crucial risk factor for suicide. Two studies from the United States examined suicide rates in counties with ...postprin