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Responsible Gambling Telephone Intervention to High-risk Gamblers by a State-owned Gambling Operator in Sweden.

NCT04646421 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3626

Last updated 2021-06-02

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Summary

The present overall project evaluates an intervention carried out by the Swedish state-owned gambling operator AB Svenska Spel, in order to help high-risk gamblers reduce or quit their gambling. The intervention is a motivational telephone intervention, called by responsible gambling officers trained in motivational interviewing, and who call gamblers who are screened for suspected high-risk gambling practices either through the operator's own records, or because they have voluntarily taken a self-test indicating a hazardous gambling pattern. The present projects evaluates the effectiveness, user satisfaction and acceptability of the intervention, in two parts: 1) A retrospective, register-based follow-up of gamblers reached by the telephone intervention, in comparison to control individuals for whom attempts were made to carry out the same intervention, but who were never successfully reached on telephone. The effectiveness measures include potential changes in gambling level (frequency, level of wagering) post-intervention compared to pre-intervention, as well as occurrence of deposit limits, or voluntary self-exclusion. 2) A prospective web survey study involving individuals reached with the intervention from November, 2020, who - after receiving electronic written information and after providing informed consent - will answer a web survey around 10 days after the intervention, about their attitudes to the telephone intervention, and their self-reported gambling (on the same operator and on other gambling operators), self-limiting interventions and treatment seeking after the intervention. The study will provide important data on the effectiveness of this intervention aiming to reduce high-risk gambling practices, and will be able to study also the risk of gamblers transferring their gambling practices to other operators after a motivational intervention as the present one. Also, as acceptability and user satisfaction of the intervention are crucial for its success over time, these measures are also included in order to improve the understanding or how effective responsible gambling interventions can be implemented by gambling operators with a harm-reducing mission.

Conditions

  • Problem Gambling
  • Gambling Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational telephone intervention

Motivational telephone intervention to high-risk gamblers, aiming to stimulate them to reduce gambling, quit gambling, or to seek peer support or treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • AB Svenska Spel

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Lund University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-12
Primary Completion
2021-10-31
Completion
2021-11-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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