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Revealing Gambling's Grey Literature
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- Author / Creator
- Baxter, David
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Governments that have legalized gambling bring in billions of dollars in revenue from this risky, harmful product, and direct a small fraction of that revenue to gambling research intended to help mitigate those harms. Most of this research is published as grey literature. I ask the following questions in three chapters: Does gambling grey literature cover topics that best help minimize harm? Is gambling grey literature reused? And is gambling grey literature rigorous?Chapter One is a systematic mapping review of 1,189 research reports from Canada and three similar countries, and reveals that governments rarely investigate the effective public health policy measures that might jeopardize gambling revenues, unless legislated to do so. Chapter Two is a citation analysis of recent gambling review articles. Despite the large body of gambling grey literature, it is underrepresented in reviews compared to other domains, and search methods fall short of best practices. Chapter Three explores gambling grey literature’s rigour through in-depth interviews with gambling researchers. We learn that gambling’s grey literature is of comparable quality to its academic publications, but also that standards of its academic publications are relatively low.In sum, gambling researchers face several barriers to producing and accessing research that will effectively prevent gambling harm and promote public health. The thesis concludes with individual- and system-level suggestions for how to improve the gambling research environment and produce higher quality research to guide ethical gambling regulation.
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2022
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Arts
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Library with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.