Brief Online Personalised Feedback Intervention for Gambling Harm

Problem Gambling Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot Randomised Trial of a Brief Online Personalised Feedback Intervention for the UK Context Designed to Prevent, Reduce, and Address Gambling Harm

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06011070
• Other study ID #: HR-22/23-36398
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 21, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: King's College London
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Purpose and significance A brief self-directed online personalised feedback intervention was developed for the UK context designed to prevent, reduce, and address gambling harm. The intervention, which also comes in a paper format, comprises of normative feedback and personalised information on the risk of gambling above lower-risk gambling guidelines. The content is based on recent work adapting the Canadian lower-risk gambling guidelines to the UK context. The purpose of this exploratory research is to conduct the first randomised controlled trial of this intervention. Further, given the increased prevalence of online gambling, the project will target this at-risk population.

Rationale This project will generate participant feedback on the intervention important to improve its utility. The project will also produce publishable findings on the intervention's efficacy. This evaluation provides a necessary first step towards the wide-spread implementation of this free-of-charge intervention in the UK.

Methodology First, using methods developed in our previous research, we will rapidly recruit 926 online gambling participants with moderate or problem gambling from an existing online panel of UK residents. These participants will be randomised to receive the self-directed online intervention or assigned to a no intervention control group. Participants will be followed-up up at one- and three-months to provide detailed feedback on their impressions of the intervention (and what further modifications are needed) and to assess the short-term impact of the intervention on gambling frequency and harm.

Potential implications of the proposed research The intervention can be accessed at any time of the day and allow the delivery of help without requiring face-to-face contact. Online interventions also have the potential to promote reductions in social inequalities through reducing barriers to accessible care. At present, there appears to be no UK online at-risk gambling intervention that is publicly available.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1586
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Problem gambling severity index score of 3 or more

• Willingness to complete 1 and 3-month follow-up surveys

Exclusion Criteria

• Do not live in the United Kingdom

• Incorrectly answer attention check question on baseline survey

• Do not endorse that they answered all questions truthfully on the baseline survey

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gambling
• Problem Gambling

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Gambling Personalised Feedback
The intervention is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in gambling

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	King's College London	London

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
King's College London

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	number of days gambled in the last month	The number of days the participants reports gambling in the past month	1 and 3 months