Screening for Excessive Gambling Behaviors on the Internet

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The Internet medium is particularly vector for gambling problems. Since the opening of the online gambling sector in France, no screening for excessive gambling behaviours is provided for by the law, although it is known that preventive actions are more effective if they are implemented early in the gambler's career. The investigators propose to develop a model for screening excessive gambling practices based on the gambling behaviours observed on French gambling websites, coupled to a clinical validation. The objective is to lead to early preventive measures directed towards the more vulnerable gamblers and adapted for each type of gambling. This study will therefore contribute to setting up an innovative measure of prevention, to inform and protect gamblers as early as possible.

Official Title
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Screening for Excessive Gambling Behaviors on the Internet (EDEIN Study). Study of the Database of French Online Gambling Sites.

Conditions
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Gambling, Pathological

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: stage 1
* Other: stage 2
* Other: stage 3


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: users of French online gambling websites users with active accounts users that have placed at least one bet during the last 12 months Exclusion Criteria: minor

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| stage 1<br>French online gamblers. | Other: stage 1<br>* The first stage of the project aims at providing a general description of the behaviour of French online gamblers, especially defining a typology of online gamblers.<br>|
| stage 2<br>Validation of problematic gamblers score on possible problematic gamblers. | Other: stage 2<br>* The second stage of the project aims at checking that the criteria selected in the first stage lead to a correct prediction whether the gambler is problematic or not. Particularly, this stage aims at determining the best possible score (calculated from gambling data) for defining the gambler's status.<br>|
| stage 3<br>240 problematic gamblers. | Other: stage 3<br>* The third stage of the project aims at clinically validating the screening model. Result from the screening model will be compared to the diagnostic obtained with a clinical interview.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Development of a model for screening excessive gambling practices based on the observation of the behaviour of online gamblers. |  | retrospective data collection over the past 12 months assessed at time 0 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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gambling disorder, screening model, online gambling, clinical validation