Test of a method to reduce the urge to gamble in a population of problem gamblers in treatment.
Résumé de l'étude
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.
(BASEC)
Intervention étudiée
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.
(BASEC)
Maladie en cours d'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)
Critères d'exclusion
Suffer from a severe psychopathology (suicidal thoughts, psychosis, manic phase, depressive phase, alcohol intoxication, intellectual disability) (BASEC)
Lieu de l’étude
Lausanne
(BASEC)
Sponsor
Dr. Olivier Simon
(BASEC)
Contact pour plus d'informations sur l'étude
Personne de contact en Suisse
Aurélien Cornil
+32 4 366 20 66
aurelien.cornil@clutteruliege.beULiège
(BASEC)
Nom du comité d'éthique approbateur (pour les études multicentriques, uniquement le comité principal)
Commission cantonale d'éthique du Vaud
(BASEC)
Date d'approbation du comité d'éthique
10.04.2018
(BASEC)
Identifiant de l'essai ICTRP
NCT03493399 (ICTRP)
Titre officiel (approuvé par le comité d'éthique)
Testing Interference-based methods to mitigate gambling craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (BASEC)
Titre académique
Testing Interference-based Methods to Mitigate Gambling Craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (ICTRP)
Titre public
Testing Interference-based Methods to Mitigate Gambling Craving - A Multiple Single Case Design (ICTRP)
Maladie en cours d'investigation
Gambling Disorder;Gambling, Pathological;Craving;Gambling;Gambling Problem (ICTRP)
Intervention étudiée
Behavioral: Interference (ICTRP)
Type d'essai
Interventional (ICTRP)
Plan de l'étude
Intervention model: Sequential Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label). (ICTRP)
Critères d'inclusion/exclusion
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)
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Critères d'évaluation principaux et secondaires
Gambling Craving Frequency;Gambling Craving Strength (ICTRP)
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Date d'enregistrement
23.03.2018 (ICTRP)
Inclusion du premier participant
01.07.2019 (ICTRP)
Sponsors secondaires
University of Luxembourg;Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois;University of Geneva, Switzerland;Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain (ICTRP)
Contacts supplémentaires
Aurélien Cornil;Olivier Simon, aurelien.cornil@uclouvain.be; olivier.simon@chuv.ch, +3210478737; (ICTRP)
ID secondaires
UCLouvain - CJE-CHUV (ICTRP)
Résultats-Données individuelles des participants
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Informations complémentaires sur l'essai
https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03493399 (ICTRP)
Résultats de l'essai
Résumé des résultats
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Lien vers les résultats dans le registre primaire
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