Brief Online Personalised Feedback Intervention for Gambling Harm

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Problem Gambling
• Interventions: Behavioral: Gambling Personalised Feedback

• Registration Number: NCT06011070
• Lead Sponsor: King's College London

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-08-21
• Study First Submitted: 2023-08-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2023-08-25
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-30
• Study Completion: 2023-12-30
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-05
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1586

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• 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

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Gambling Personalised Feedback	Gambling Personalised Feedback	The intervention is a brief online intervention designed to provide personalized normative feedback aimed at motivating reductions in gambling

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of days gambled in the last month	1 and 3 months	The number of days the participants reports gambling in the past month

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

King's College London; 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom