Don't Go There: A Geospatial mHealth App for Gambling Disorder

Saint Louis University (SLU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Gambling Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: mHealth App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04158037

30494

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to develop and to test the efficacy of a novel mHealth app for gambling disorder. The app capitalizes on smartphones' global positioning software (GPS) that recognizes a user's location to within 15 feet. Users will receive an alert of this go near a gambling venue. The project will conduct a 12-week pilot randomized clinical trial to test the short-term efficacy of the app with gambling disorder individuals.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Currently meets DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder
• At least 4 non-online gambling episodes in past 60 days
• Wagering at least $100 total over past 60 days
• Willingness to accept random assignment
• English speaking
• Android phone user

Exclusion criteria

• Age <18 years old
• Severely disruptive behavior
• Serious uncontrolled psychiatric behavior that requires acute psychiatric care
• Decline permission to collect zero permission data from smartphone.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

mHealth App

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive the gambling disorder mHealth app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mHealth App

Wait List Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participant will be placed on a wait list for 12 weeks, after which they will be offered the gambling disorder mHealth app.