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Brief ACT Intervention for Problem Gambling: A Pilot Study

NCT07066488 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5

Last updated 2025-07-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this pilot study is to learn if Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) works to treat Problem Gambling in young adults.The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does ACT therapy improve health and gambling behavior?
* Is an 8-week online group therapy format viable for youth with gambling problems? Researchers will assess whether changes in health, gambling behavior, and other psychological variables are observed after eight weeks of therapy.

Participants will:

* Attend weekly online group sessions for 8 weeks
* Learn new tools that they will put into practice after the sessions
* Be required to complete evaluation questionnaires before and after the intervention and at the 3- and 6-month follow-up

Conditions

  • Problem Gambling

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy methods were focused on promoting Values clarification, Acceptance, Cognitive defusion, Committed action and Flexible attention to the present moment, and included methods such as the Garden Metaphor or defusion training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Europea de Madrid

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francisco Montesinos, Ph.D. · Universidad Europea de Madrid

  • David Lobato, Ph.D. · Universidad Europea de Madrid

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-01
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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