Vulnerability Markers in Pathological Gambling

Gambling Clinical Trial

— GambleMMORe  

Official title:

Marqueurs de vulnérabilité Aux Jeux Pathologiques

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02873572
• Other study ID #: N/2009/54
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 12, 2016
• Last updated: August 16, 2016
• Start date: April 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2016
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
• Contact: Emmanuel Haffen, MD PhD
• Phone: +33381219007
• Email: emmanuel.haffen[@]univ-fcomte.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)France: Committee for the Protection of Personnes
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Addictions without substances are an emergent problem giving rise to a recent and increasing request of care. Among these new addictions, pathological gambling and pathological online video gaming which are up. The purpose of this study is to identify vulnerability factors (personality traits, decision making strategies...), which are common or specific to each type of game (on line poker, casino, MMORPG, and no-gamers).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: December 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• arm 1: online poker gamblers who don't play another type of gamble/game

• arm 2: casino gamblers who don't play another type of gamble/game

• arm 3: MMORPG gamers who don't play another type of gamble/game

• arm 4: no-gamblers/gamers subjects

• step 2 : only right-handled subjects (due to registration of brain activity)

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gambling
• Gaming

Intervention

Behavioral:
• step 1: online assessment
Anonymous psychiatric and behavioral assessments to evaluate in particular addiction or pathological gambling/gaming and behavioral profile of gamblers/gamers. Once questionnaire completed, if the subjects want to continue to participate, they sent their email to investigators.
• step2: biomarkers of gamblers/gamers
For each arm, subjects were divided into 2 groups: dependant or not dependant gamblers/gamers. Investigators focused on decision-making biomarkers following the following flow-chart: psychiatric assesment and registration of brain activity during a decision-making task in conditions of uncertainty (IGT) with its version for HR-EEG validated by investigators (Giustiniani, 2015).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Besancon	Besancon

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon	Saint Anne's Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Giustiniani J, Gabriel D, Nicolier M, Monnin J, Haffen E. Neural Correlates of Successful and Unsuccessful Strategical Mechanisms Involved in Uncertain Decision-Making. PLoS One. 2015 Jun 18;10(6):e0130871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130871. eCollection 2 — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Compare the average activation differences in each arm regarding the dependance level and between the 4 arms.		up to 4 weeks	No