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The Efficacy of Therapy Focused on Desire-satisfaction for Disordered Gamblers

NCT02491996 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2015-07-09

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Summary

The investigators proposed a desire satisfaction-targeted intervention for disordered gamblers (DTIG) due to the limitations of the abstinence-targeted intervention, which is based on the weak self-control relative to growing desire to gamble. This intervention model perceives loss of gambling control as a failure of strategy in which gambling is anticipated to fulfill various desires (i.e., desires for fame, money, and escapism). Therefore, the alternative behaviors to fulfill original desires directly become the main therapeutic purpose.

Materials and Methods: Outpatients who were primarily diagnosed as gambling disorder by the DSM-V were treated by DTIG. This method usually comprised 1 or 2 sessions, 60 minutes in duration, delivered by a psychiatrist. Participants were examined : 1) Basic background such as gender, age,; 2) medical variables such as the onset age, the duration of the problem gambling, psychiatric complications, motivation to quit gambling; 3) assessment of severity (DSM-5, SOGS and G-SAS); 4) Short prognosis; 6 months-outcome after intervention (problem gambling/ control gambling/ abstinence).

Conditions

  • Pathological Gambling

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

desire satisfaction-targeted intervention for disordered gamblers

This intervention consists of an initial psychiatric assessment, followed by psychoeducational approach based on desire satisfaction-targeted intervention by psychiatrists, and three group sessions based on CBT by psychologists. Patients with psychiatric comorbidities are treated with the appropriate pharmacological regimens.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • Japan

Study Locations

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