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Article History

Received: 18 December 2023

Accepted: 11 December 2024

First Online: 7 January 2025

Declarations

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: Ethical approval for this element of ‘The Betting and Gaming COVID-19 Impact Study’ [] was granted by the University of Stirling’s General University Ethics Panel (ref: GUEP (19 20) 930).

: AB and CD worked on the current study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. In 2018/19, NC, FD, GR and RP worked on one study funded by GambleAware, which examined the impact of gambling marketing/advertising on young people and vulnerable groups. In the last five years FD discloses grant funding for gambling-related projects from the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. FD has received payment from the University of Chester to participate in an online focus group to help develop an awareness raising intervention to increase knowledge of the marketing strategies used by the gambling industry to promote their products. In the last 5 years, CB has received funding for research relating to gambling from the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health and Care Research and the British Academy. In the last five years RP discloses grant funding for gambling-related projects from UKRI, the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health and Social Research. In the last five years CG discloses grant funding from gambling-related projects from the Economic and Social Research Council and National Institute for Health and Care Research. In the past five years GR has received research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research, the Medical Research Council and the British Academy. GR has had travel and accommodation expenses paid by the UK Society for the Study of Addiction, the Howard League for Crime and Penal Reform (via the Gambling Commission), the University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance/ Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the Australian Research Council, and the Institute for Gambling and Society (GLUG) at the University of Ruhr, Bochum. In the past 5 years, HW has been funded for gambling studies by the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust, the Gambling Commission (including their regulatory settlement fund), Office of Health Disparities and Improvements/Public Health England; Greater London Authority; Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority and the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport. In 2018/19, HW received funding from GambleAware for a project on gambling and suicide. HW declares consulting fees from the Institute of Public Health, Ireland and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. HW declares payment for delivery of seminars from McGill University and from John Hopkins University. HW has been paid as an expert witness by Lambeth and Middlesborough Borough Councils; HW declares travel costs paid by Gambling Regulators European Forum, the Turkish Green Crescent Society, Alberta Gambling Research Institute and the REITOX Academy (administered through the Austrian National Public Health Institute). She served as Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling between 2015 and 2020, remunerated by the Gambling Commission; is a Member of the WHO panel on gambling (ongoing) and provided unpaid advice on research to GamCare for their Safer Gambling standard (until 2021). She runs a research consultancy for public and third sector bodies only. She has not, and does not, provide consultancy services to the gambling industry. In the last five years KH discloses grant funding from gambling-related projects from the Economic and Social Research Council and National Institute for Health and Care Research.