Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Article History
Received: 9 July 2021
Accepted: 9 September 2021
First Online: 4 October 2021
Ethical Approval
: The Ethics Committee of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare has approved the Gambling Harms Survey (THL/1390/6.02.01/2016). Potential participants were aware of the voluntary participation and gave verbal informed consent. In accordance with the national data protection regulations of the time, potential participants received information that participating the study involved the register-linkage. In the letter to potential participants, information about the registrars and their statutory right to disclose data for scientific purposes were described. The Ethics Committee of Statistics Finland has given approval (5/2016, 17.11.2016) to the use of socio-demographic data and an application for the licence has been approved (Dnro TK-53-1418-18). The results of the study are presented in such a way that the respondents cannot be identified on the basis of the results.
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.