“…With the COVID-19 pandemic, online gamblers have increased their gambling (Bellringer & Garrett, 2021), aggravating the psychological and social consequences for people with problematic gambling behaviors (Håkansson et al, 2020;Yayha & Khawaja, 2020). The authors highlighted the removal of protective factors, including structured daily life (Yayha & Khawaja, 2020), boredom (Fluharty et al, 2022;Lindner et al, 2020), depression and anxiety (Fluharty et al, 2022), as well a financial deprivation (Price, 2020;Swanton et al, 2021), as the main reasons for the increase in gambling problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is well known that the daily lives of many people have been substantially altered, with a high degree of homeschooling for school children and students (Tejedor et al, 2021), also with likely negative effects for young people and their families (Thorell et al, 2021).…”