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Article History

Accepted: 26 March 2023

First Online: 28 April 2023

Declarations

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest in relation to the publication of this article. Myles has received funding from the New South Wales Office of Responsible Gambling, and Myles, O’Brien, Yücel and Carter from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation respectively. Each of these state government organisations derive resources in part through hypothecated taxes on gambling revenue. None of the authors have received direct research funding from the gambling, tobacco, or alcohol industries, nor from any organisation sponsored by these industries, or any other commercial entity that may stand to gain or lose financially through the publication of this manuscript. None of the authors have any personal financial interest in these industries.

: Prior to providing consent participants were presented with a plain language statement describing the study. All participants for whom data were recorded provided explicit consent to participate in the study as described.

: The plain language explanatory statement presented to participants prior to consent included the following specific information about the intention to use of research data in future publications or presentations: “Data will be collated, statistically analysed and may form part of a research thesis. The results may also be presented at research conferences, presentations or included in a published research journal. Public presentations and publications will only report aggregate and anonymised data and will not identify you personally.” Our explanatory statement also stated the authors’ intention to make data available to other researchers: “Anonymous data may be made available to other researchers at public research institutions or through the Open Science Framework. This is to allow for the possibility of peer review, replication studies, re-analyses, quality control and meta-analyses. If made available to other researchers, these data will be anonymous and made available under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence that forbids the use of these data for commercial gain.” Our consent form included specific acknowledgement that participants had read this statement and that they understood that data may be used in research publications and presentations.

: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethics approval was obtained from the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (MUHREC Project ID: 17815).