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Online interventions for gambling problems hold a strong potential to help people with gambling concerns. However, there are no trials, to-date, that have been able to demonstrate the effectiveness of such an intervention. The current trial will compare participants provided access to an online gambling intervention to those assigned by chance to a no intervention condition in order to test the efficacy of one such Internet intervention for gambling.
Participants will be recruited through Amazon's MTurk crowdsourcing platform. Potential participants identified as problem gamblers who are interested in quitting or reducing their gambling in the next 6 months, or often think about it, based on an initial survey will be invited to complete additional surveys at 6 weeks and 6 months. Those who then agree to be followed up will be randomized to access an online intervention for gambling or a no-intervention website. These participants will then be contacted again at 6 weeks and 6 months to ask about their gambling, and their impressions of the online intervention. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that participants receiving access to the online gambling intervention will report a greater reduction in number of days gambling and in NODS scores at 6-month follow-up than participants in the no intervention control condition.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Intervention | No Intervention | A questionnaire that asks individuals what components of an online intervention they might find useful. | |
| Online Gambling Internet Intervention | Experimental | An online gambling Internet intervention (housed at CAMH and developed based on the self-help materials created by Professor David Hodgins) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Gambling Internet Intervention | Behavioral | CAMH's online gambling intervention which includes self-help materials as well as a personalized feedback component. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change in the variable, National Opinion Research Center DSM Screen for Gambling Problems (NODS) score | Screening tool for gambling problems according to DSM-IV criteria | Past 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in the variable, number of days gambling in the past month | Total days gambled in the past 30 days | 6 weeks and 6 months |
| Change in the variable, Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (GSAS) score |
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Inclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| John A Cunningham, PhD | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Toronto | Ontario | M5S 2S1 | Canada |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32737814 | Derived | Schell C, Godinho A, Cunningham JA. Examining Change in Self-Reported Gambling Measures Over Time as Related to Socially Desirable Responding Bias. J Gambl Stud. 2021 Sep;37(3):1043-1054. doi: 10.1007/s10899-020-09970-1. | |
| 31193792 | Derived | Cunningham JA, Godinho A, Hodgins DC. Pilot randomized controlled trial of an online intervention for problem gamblers. Addict Behav Rep. 2019 Mar 6;9:100175. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100175. eCollection 2019 Jun. |
| Label | URL |
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| Information about research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre | View source |
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Gambling symptom severity in the past week
| 6 weeks and 6 months |