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Comparing the Efficacy of an Online Gambling Intervention to a no Intervention Control Condition

NCT03124589 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 321

Last updated 2017-12-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Gambling Problem

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Online Gambling Internet Intervention

CAMH's online gambling intervention which includes self-help materials as well as a personalized feedback component.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John A Cunningham, PhD · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-21
Primary Completion
2017-11-23
Completion
2017-11-23

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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