Developing and Evaluating Effectiveness of a Reinstatement Tutorial

Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Problem Gambling

Treatments: Other: electronic tutorial; Other: brochure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02056314

126/2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 260 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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260 participants in 2 patient groups

brochure

Active Comparator group

Description:

The participants will be given a brochure that describes problem gambling and recommends methods of staying in control of gambling such as coping skills.

Treatment:

Other: brochure

electronic tutorial

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will be given an electronic tutorial that will explain how to stay in control of their gambling including information about coping skills, warning signs, and information about myths related to gambling.

Treatment:

Other: electronic tutorial