Brief Online Personalised Feedback Intervention for Gambling Harm

NCT06011070 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HR-22/23-36398
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,586
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Problem Gambling

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• number of days gambled in the last month

  The number of days the participants reports gambling in the past month

  1 and 3 months

Study Arms (2)

Gambling Personalised Feedback

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in gambling

Behavioral: Gambling Personalised Feedback

Control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention Control

Interventions

Gambling Personalised Feedback BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in gambling

Gambling Personalised Feedback

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Problem gambling severity index score of 3 or more
• Willingness to complete 1 and 3-month follow-up surveys

You may not qualify if:

• 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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• King's College London: lead

Study Sites (1)

King's College London

London, SE1 9NH, United Kingdom

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 21, 2023
• First Posted: August 25, 2023
• Study Start: August 21, 2023
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2023
• Study Completion: December 30, 2023
• Last Updated: February 6, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share

Locations

GB (1)