Clinical trial NCT05693155: Experience of the Nationwide Gambling Self-exclusion Service Spelpaus - Effects and Limitations of a Unique Harm Reduction Instrument for Problem Gambling
Official title: Experience of the Nationwide Gambling Self-exclusion Service Spelpaus - Effects and Limitations of a Unique Harm Reduction Instrument for Problem Gambling
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Gambling Disorder
Problem Gambling
Keywords: gambling disorder
problem gambling
concerned significant others
self-exclusion
harm reduction
Lead sponsor: Region Skane
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Lund University
First posted: 2023-01-20
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 1. Patients at a gambling disorder unit, or self-recruited through social media advertising and defining as a person with a gambling problem
2. Concerned significant others of patients at a gambling disorder unit or self-recruited through social media advertising and defining as a concerned significant other of a person with a gambling problem.

Brief summary: Qualitative interview study addressing the effects and limitations of a unique, government-based, nationwide self-exclusion service for the reduction of gambling-related harm. This service, which allows for individuals at risk of gambling problems (and for anyone) to self-exclude from all licensed gambling in the country, is unique in its nationwide, non-gambling-operator-dependent and multi-operator design. It is a promising tool for the prevention and harm reduction in relation to problem gambling and gambling disorder, but emerging research data report considerable limitations including high access to non-licensed gambling allowing users to breach the voluntary self-exclusion and relapse into hazardous gambling practices. This study will examine effects and limitations of the system, for gamblers and for concerned significant others of gamblers, through qualitative interviews addressing their experience of the system.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient at a gambling disorder unit or self-recruited through social media advertising and defining as a person with a gambling problem, and/or concerned significant other of a patient at a gambling disorder unit or self-recruited through social media advertising and defining as a concerned significant other of a person with a gambling problem.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Inability to provide informed study consent and to carry out a qualitative research interview, due to language difficulties and/or cognitive problems.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Qualitative reporting of self-perceived effects from self-exclusion
timeFrame: Since 2019
measure: Qualitative reporting of self-perceived harm or limitations from self-exclusion
timeFrame: Since 2019
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Malmö
country: Sweden
facility: Malmö Addiction Center
Study officials:
affiliation: Region Skåne
name: Anders Håkansson, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Lund University, School of Social Work
name: Helena Hansson, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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