Study on gambling impulse in patients with Parkinson's disease

Abstract

The occurrence and risk factors for the urge to gamble in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients were investigated. This study enrolled 167 patients with PD. Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS) was used to estimate the gambling symptom of PD patients. The factors which might affect gambling symptom in patients, such as age, gender, education level, disease duration, history of smoking, drugs were also investigated. The results showed that the gambling impulse occurrence of Chinese PD patients was 2.39%. No related factors were found in this study.