Concerned significant others of people with gambling problems in Finland: a cross-sectional population study

BMC Public Health

Table 1 The proportion of concerned significant others (CSOs) of problem gamblers

		Gender of the CSOs
Problem gambler	All CSOs %	Males %	Females %	Significance
1. Father	2.0	2.0	2.0	p = 1.000
2. Mother	0.8	0.7	0.8	p = 0.859
3. Sister or brother	2.7	1.9	3.4	p = 0.004
4. Grandparent	1.0	1.0	1.0	p = 1.000
5. Partner	1.7	0.8	2.6	p ≤ 0.001
6. Own child or children	1.6	1.3	2.0	p = 0.106
7. Close friend	12.4	14.4	10.3	p ≤ 0.001
At least one of above (numbers 1-7)	19.3	19.8	18.7	p = 0.402
At least one member in the family (numbers 1-6)	8.6	6.8	10.4	p ≤ 0.001

Significance is determined by Fisher’s exact test; the data (N = 4484; males n = 2117, females n = 2367) were weighted based on gender, age and residency.

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