Seeking Treatment for Gambling - a 10-year Retrospective... | NCT07488871

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Mar 2026

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Active, not recruiting

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

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Why Stopped

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Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Mar 9, 2026Actual

Primary Completion Date

Jun 2027Estimated

Completion Date

Jun 2027Estimated

First Submitted Date

Mar 9, 2026

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Mar 18, 2026

First Posted Date

Mar 23, 2026Actual

Results Waived

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Results First Submitted Date

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Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

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Results First Posted Date

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Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

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Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

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Certification/Extension First Posted Date

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Last Update Submitted Date

Mar 18, 2026

Last Update Posted Date

Mar 23, 2026Actual

Sponsor/Collaborators Module

Responsible Party, by Official Title

Anders C Håkansson, Professor, consultant physician, Region SkanePrincipal Investigator

Lead Sponsor

Region SkaneOTHER

Collaborators

Name	Class
Lund University	OTHER

Oversight Module

Has Data Monitoring Committee (DMC)

Is FDA Regulated Drug

Is FDA Regulated Device

Is Unapproved Device

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Pediatric Postmarket Surveillance of a Device Product

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Product Exported from US

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FDAAA801 Violation

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Description Module

Brief Summary

Retrospective chart review and register study of all patients who sought treatment at Region Skåne gambling disorder treatment unit, from December, 2015, through November, 2025. Patients' problematic gambling patterns, gambling self-exclusion behaviour and existing comorbidities and medications, are studied in association with routes of referral, prior treatment contacts and diagnoses for mental and physical disorders in primary care and specialist care.

Detailed Description

For all patients seeking treatment during the full 10-year history of the facility (December, 2015-November, 2025), the following variables are gathered and described and studied with respect to associations with one another:

Age
Legal gender
Tobacco use and alcohol problems requiring treatment
Problematic gambling type(s), such as sports betting, online casino, horse race betting, land-based electronic gambling machines, bingo, and gambling within videogames.
History of voluntary self-exclusion from gambling on the Swedish nationwide system for self-exclusion from licensed gambling operators (the so-called 'Spelpaus' system)
Living conditions (housing) and socio-economic conditions (over-indebtedness, history of enforcement agency contacts, granted debt settlement)
Current employment status (unemployed, degree of employment)
Co-morbid psychiatric and physical disorders
Prescribed medications
Emergency hospital visits for mental health disorders (at psychiatric emergency units)
In-patient psychiatric treatment episodes (including duration of hospitalisations)
Routes of referral to the gambling disorder treatment unit (self-referral, primary care, occupational health care, psychiatric units, social services, health care unit for physical disease, or other units)

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

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Expanded Access Types

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Patient Registry

Target Follow-Up Duration

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Phases

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Interventional Study Design

Allocation

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Intervention Model

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

1,200Estimated

Arms/Interventions Module

Arm Groups

Label	Type	Description	Intervention Names
Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Sweden			Behavioral: Treatment uptake

Interventions

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Treatment uptake	Behavioral	Initiation of assessment/treatment in treatment-seeking individuals.	Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Sweden

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Longitudinal change in clinical picture.	Longitudinal change in clinical picture with respect to gambling pattern, self-exclusion behavior, physical and psychiatric comorbidity, routes of treatment seeking, and need for emergency/in-patient care.	Full observational period (10 years).

Secondary Outcomes

Not provided

Other Outcomes

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Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden, Dec, 2015-Nov, 2025

Exclusion Criteria:

Treatment occasions considered, after chart review, to not have detected any need for problem gambling assessment or intervention.

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

18 Years

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden, Dec, 2015-Nov, 2025

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

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Overall Officials

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Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Malmö Addiction Center, Gambling disorder treatment unit		Malmö		20502	Sweden

IPD Sharing Statement Module

Plan to Share IPD

Description

Because data are confidential health care documentation which cannot legally be shared with other researchers.

Types

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Time Frame

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Access Criteria

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URL

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Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Jul 10, 2026

Removed Countries

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Submission Tracking

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Condition Browse Module

MeSH Terms

Intervention Browse Module

No data available

No data is available for this block.

ID	Term
D005715	Gambling
D001523	Mental Disorders

ID	Term
D012309	Risk-Taking
D001519	Behavior
D007174	Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders