Online Gambling Clinical Trial
Official title:
Moderators of Online Gambling, How Effective? Experimental, Controlled and Randomized Study.
Prevalence of problem gambling is estimated about 1-3% of the general adult population. This
percentage increases to 5% when talking about online gambling. In France, the market for
online gambling was recently opened up to competition and regulation (May 2010), including
poker and sports/horse races betting, but excluding for the moment casino games. Recent
international studies show that legalizing online gambling led to an increase of practices,
including problem gambling.
In France, the law stipulates the establishment of moderators of online gambling, to prevent
excessive gambling practices. The Regulatory Authority of Online Games (ARJEL) guarantees the
implementation of these moderators. However, no evaluation of the effectiveness of these
moderators is planned.
Therefore the investigators propose to conduct an experimental study about online gambling.
The objective will be to evaluate the effectiveness of four kinds of moderators, some already
legislated, but not evaluated, and others offered by the investigators team. Proposals for
amending legislation will be made according the results of this study.
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