Online gambling forums as a potential target for harm reduction: an exploratory natural language processing analysis of a reddit.com forum.
Journal:
Harm reduction journal
PMID:
40361087
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Globally, there has been a rapid increase in the availability of online gambling. As online gambling has increased in popularity, there has been a corresponding increase in online communities that discuss gambling. The movement of gambling and communities interested in gambling to online spaces presents new challenges to harm reduction. The current study analyses a forum from a popular online forum hosting website (reddit.com) to determine its suitability as a source for data to inform gambling harm reduction in online spaces.