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Authors
Syvertsen, André http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-3758
Leino, Tony http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1781-4153
Pallesen, Ståle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-0840
Smith, Otto R. F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6306-2239
Sivertsen, Børge http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4654-9296
Griffiths, Mark D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524
Mentzoni, Rune Aune http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0655-0292
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Bergen
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Article History
Received: 20 June 2022
Accepted: 20 March 2023
First Online: 28 March 2023
Declarations
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: The study received ethical approval from the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Related Research Ethics in Western Norway (no. 30393) and the Norwegian Centre for Research Data. The approval included a waiver of informed consent because the data was anonymized before the authors got access to it. The ethical approval covers the stated aims of the current study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) was also made in collaboration with the University of Bergen and approved by the Institute of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests except MDG. MDG has received research funding from <i>Norsk Tipping</i> (the gambling operator owned by the Norwegian government). MDG has received funding for a number of research projects in the area of gambling education for young people, social responsibility in gambling and gambling treatment from Gamble Aware (formerly the Responsibility in Gambling Trust), a charitable body which funds its research program based on donations from the gambling industry. MDG undertakes consultancy for various gambling companies in the area of player protection and harm-minimization in gambling.
