Developing and Evaluating Effectiveness of a Reinstatement Tutorial

Problem Gambling Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing and Evaluating Effectiveness of a Reinstatement Tutorial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02056314
• Other study ID #: 126/2013
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 2014
• Est. completion date: March 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will compare a computerized tutorial to a brochure in terms of their education impact of people who wish to end voluntary self-exclusion. Voluntary self-exclusion is a program used by people who seek to bar themselves from further access to the casino or other gambling venue. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in cooperation with Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG), is developing a tutorial designed to provide practical information to players who choose to reinstate and return to gambling. The goal of this study is to determine if this new computerized tutorial decreases the harm of gambling experienced by gamblers who are reinstated. For example, are they less likely to relapsing to problematic levels of gambling.

Description:

Voluntary self-exclusion is a program used by people who seek to bar themselves from further access to the casino or other gambling venue. Currently there are over 10000 people in the program. Although some self-exclusion programs place a permanent ban on the individual, others offer the possibility of reinstatement after a period of time. Many problem gamblers actually do change their minds about self-exclusion and wish to return to gambling. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), in cooperation with Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG), is developing a tutorial designed to provide practical information to players who choose to reinstate and return to gambling. The goal of this study is to evaluate an the intervention to determine its impact on problem gamblers who is reinstated from relapsing to problematic levels of gambling. The content for the tutorial will be informed by CAMH, will be developed for land based gambling, and also adapted for online gambling as well.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 260
• Est. completion date: March 2018
• Est. primary completion date: January 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• people currently in the voluntary self-exclusion program who wish to be reinstated (allowed back into the casino to gamble).

Exclusion Criteria:

• people who are not currently in the voluntary self-exclusion program

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gambling
• Problem Gambling

Intervention

Other:
• electronic tutorial
The electronic tutorial will provide information to the participants about the nature of gambling, and how to protect themselves against the risks of problem gambling including information on coping skills, and myths associated with gambling.
• brochure
The brochure is the current means of informing people about the risks of problem gambling. It includes information about problem gambling and help resources.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Ontario Lottery and Gaming

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Gambling frequency	The frequency with which the person is gambling will be used to determine if they are gambling problematically.	6 months
Secondary	Gambling cravings	This will be measured using the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale.	6 months