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Table 2 Coding framework: Responsible Gambling

From: Responsible gambling among older adults: a qualitative exploration

 

Codes

Basic Themes

Organising themes

1

Quelling the need for immediate results

Delayed Gratification

Self –developed strategies to limit gambling related harm

2

Not participating in sport betting

 

Family interventions to reduce gambling harm

3

Understanding of players odds in gambling activities

Perception of futility of gambling

 

4

The house always wins

  

5

Understanding of the built in “house-edge”

  

6

One can’t make a living out of gambling

  

7

Setting loss limits

Setting Limits

 

8

Setting time limits

  

9

Setting win limits/ quitting while one is ahead

  

10

Walking away from loss

  

11

Not letting losses affect you

  

12

Monitoring oneself and checking themselves if they gamble more than what they normally do

  

13

Having a sense of balance between spending and losses/winning

Maintaining balance

 

14

Gambling is not the priority

  

15

Support groups

Help-seeking

 

16

Support of religious elders and prayers

  

17

Self-help books

  

18

Cutting down or Quitting gambling

Abstinence

 

19

Self-exclusion

  

20

Significant money lost in gambling by friends or relatives

Awareness of disordered gambling in others or in self

 

21

Family relationships getting strained or families breaking up

  

22

Media coverage or awareness of people committing suicides due to gambling losses

  

23

Awareness of disordered gambling in the past in themselves

  

24

Awareness of addictive nature of gambling

  

25

Family members plead/ threaten the respondent to stop gambling

Pleading and threatening

 

26

Family members find out the details of treatment centres and force the older adult to seek help to help them with their gambling problems.

Compel help-seeking

 

27

Family members ban respondent from casino or other specific gambling venues

Family exclusion order