Test of a method to reduce the urge to gamble in a population of problem gamblers in treatment.
Summary description of the study
Ten patients in treatment for a gambling addiction will be recruited. This study will primarily take place on smartphones and requires internet access. To understand their urge to gamble, we will ask them to respond to various questionnaires related to gambling every day for 1 week. Then, in the following week, they will learn and use a technique called "interference" and will also respond to the questionnaires daily. Three months after this phase, we will again ask participants to respond to the same questionnaires to verify that the effect of the intervention has been maintained for another week. During these 3 months between the last 2 phases, the intervention remains accessible.
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Intervention under investigation
Interference is a method based on the principle that any urge or desire requires cognitive resources such as attention and the resources used to mentally visualize (images, sounds, tastes, etc.). To successfully suppress this urge or desire, these resources must be shifted to another task that will monopolize these resources. Here are some examples of interference methods: playing Tetris, making shapes with modeling clay, or mentally imagining scenes. It is therefore a voluntary distraction to suppress the urge, and in this study, the desire to gamble.
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Disease under investigation
Gambling addiction
(BASEC)
Have a gambling addiction with strong urges and be in treatment Be of legal age (18 years) and French-speaking (BASEC)
Exclusion criteria
Suffer from a severe psychopathology (suicidal thoughts, psychosis, manic phase, depressive phase, alcohol intoxication, intellectual disability) (BASEC)
Trial sites
Lausanne
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Sponsor
Dr. Olivier Simon
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Contact
Contact Person Switzerland
Aurélien Cornil
+32 4 366 20 66
aurelien.cornil@clutteruliege.beULiège
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Name of the authorising ethics committee (for multicentre studies, only the lead committee)
Ethics Committee Vaud
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Date of authorisation
10.04.2018
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ICTRP Trial ID
NCT03493399 (ICTRP)
Official title (approved by ethics committee)
Testing Interference-based methods to mitigate gambling craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (BASEC)
Academic title
Testing Interference-based Methods to Mitigate Gambling Craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (ICTRP)
Public title
Testing Interference-based Methods to Mitigate Gambling Craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (ICTRP)
Disease under investigation
Gambling Disorder;Gambling, Pathological;Craving;Gambling;Gambling Problem (ICTRP)
Intervention under investigation
Behavioral: Interference (ICTRP)
Type of trial
Interventional (ICTRP)
Trial design
Intervention model: Sequential Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label). (ICTRP)
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Outpatients from CJE
- In therapy for a Gambling Disorder
- French speaking
- Signifiant gambling cravings (clinically assessed)
- Sign an inform consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Comorbidities (psychosis, acute manic phase, acute depressive phase, suicidal phase,
mental retardation, alcohol intoxication or other psychic state incompatible with the
study)
(ICTRP)
not available
Primary and secondary end points
Gambling Craving Frequency;Gambling Craving Strength (ICTRP)
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Registration date
23.03.2018 (ICTRP)
Incorporation of the first participant
01.07.2019 (ICTRP)
Secondary sponsors
University of Luxembourg;Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois;University of Geneva, Switzerland;Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain (ICTRP)
Additional contacts
Aurélien Cornil;Olivier Simon, aurelien.cornil@uclouvain.be; olivier.simon@chuv.ch, +3210478737; (ICTRP)
Secondary trial IDs
UCLouvain - CJE-CHUV (ICTRP)
Results-Individual Participant Data (IPD)
not available
Further information on the trial
https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03493399 (ICTRP)
Results of the trial
Results summary
not available
Link to the results in the primary register
not available