Impact of a Self-Exclusion Procedure Optimized by an Extension of the Suspension of Commercial Solicitations (PASS)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gambling Disorder

Treatments: Other: optimized self-exclusion procedure by extending the suspension of commercial solicitations for a total of 9 months

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05413564

LOCAL 2021 /AL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Considering that self-exclusion from gambling on a particular website is an intervention for and by individuals who have developed a gambling disorder, it is currently exclusively a behavioural intervention in the sense that it prevents the behaviour Resumption of commercial solicitations only in the period when gambling is not accessible in the corresponding website , through voluntary self-exclusion (where the gambler prevents himself or herself from gambling), does not appear to be sufficient to prevent relapse. Early commercial solicitations, in the immediate intercourse after the end of the self-exlcusion period may precipitate relapse in gamblers whose behaviour change is by definition recent, and who have only received a behavioural measure. The investigators hypothesize an improved efficacy as measured by reduced gambling after a self-exclusion optimized by a period of suspension of commercial solicitations extended to 9 months, compared to self-exclusion with the standard procedure. Gamblers will be randomized according to an a priori randomization list.

Full description

This is a study evaluating the impact of PMU's implementation of an optimized self-exclusion procedure by extending the suspension of commercial solicitations for a total of 9 months, the self-exclusion being referred to as a non-medical "responsible gambling" tool, compared to the standard procedure. The self-excluded gamblers will be randomized according to an a priori randomization list, and will receive either the optimized self-exclusion procedure A or the standard self-exclusion procedure B. The study consists of a comparison between two groups A and B. The study involves non-medical gambling and socio-demographic data, routinely recorded in a regulatory manner with a permanent CNIL authorization PMU.

Enrollment: 2,554 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• self-excluder during the recruitment period
• Online sports betting
• poker and horse racing player
• account opened for at least 4 weeks
• self-exclusion for 3 months or less (minimum 3 days).

Exclusion criteria

• Player who has objected to the use of his collected data when opening his account.
• It's not the first self-exclusion of the inclusion period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,554 participants in 2 patient groups

optimized self-exclusion procedure A

Other group

Description:

optimized self-exclusion procedure by extending the suspension of commercial solicitations for a total of 9 months

Treatment:

Other: optimized self-exclusion procedure by extending the suspension of commercial solicitations for a total of 9 months

standard procedure

Other group

Description:

standard self-exclusion procedure B

Treatment:

Other: optimized self-exclusion procedure by extending the suspension of commercial solicitations for a total of 9 months