Screening for Excessive Gambling Behaviors on the Internet

Gambling, Pathological Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Screening for Excessive Gambling Behaviors on the Internet (EDEIN Study). Study of the Database of French Online Gambling Sites.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02415296
• Other study ID #: PROG/10/124
• Status: Completed
• Start date: December 29, 2015
• Est. completion date: March 2, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: April 2020
• Source: Nantes University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Internet medium is particularly vector for gambling problems. Since the opening of the online gambling sector in France, no screening for excessive gambling behaviours is provided for by the law, although it is known that preventive actions are more effective if they are implemented early in the gambler's career.

The investigators propose to develop a model for screening excessive gambling practices based on the gambling behaviours observed on French gambling websites, coupled to a clinical validation. The objective is to lead to early preventive measures directed towards the more vulnerable gamblers and adapted for each type of gambling.

This study will therefore contribute to setting up an innovative measure of prevention, to inform and protect gamblers as early as possible.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 213
• Est. completion date: March 2, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 26, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• users of French online gambling websites

• users with active accounts

• users that have placed at least one bet during the last 12 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• minor

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gambling
• Gambling, Pathological

Intervention

Other:
• stage 1
The first stage of the project aims at providing a general description of the behaviour of French online gamblers, especially defining a typology of online gamblers.
• stage 2
The second stage of the project aims at checking that the criteria selected in the first stage lead to a correct prediction whether the gambler is problematic or not. Particularly, this stage aims at determining the best possible score (calculated from gambling data) for defining the gambler's status.
• stage 3
The third stage of the project aims at clinically validating the screening model. Result from the screening model will be compared to the diagnostic obtained with a clinical interview.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Nantes University Hospital - IFAC	Nantes

Sponsors (7)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nantes University Hospital	ARJEL (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne), Institut de Recherche en Santé Publique, France, MILDECA (Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre les Drogues Et les Conduites Addictives), ODJ (Observatoire des Jeux), Université de Nantes, University of Paris 13

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Development of a model for screening excessive gambling practices based on the observation of the behaviour of online gamblers.		retrospective data collection over the past 12 months assessed at time 0