Gambling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Risks and Change Among Finnish Gamblers

This brief report presents results on how gamblers have experienced risks and change during the exceptional situation caused by COVID-19 pandemic. The study is based online questionnaires collected University of Helsinki Finnish Association for Substance Use Prevention (N = 586). Results show that reduced availability gambling in context has limited its total consumption. risk gambling-related harms therefore become less pressing Although a public health addition to being harmful activity individual, policy measures pandemic revealed that, at societal level, infection with was perceived as more serious problem than harms.