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Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Comorbidity between problem gambling and depression or anxiety is common. Further, the treatment needs of people with co-occurring gambling and mental health symptoms may be different from those of problem gamblers who do not have a co-occurring mental health concern. The current randomi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27449527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3291-7 |
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author | Cunningham, John A. Hodgins, David C. Bennett, Kylie Bennett, Anthony Talevski, Marina Mackenzie, Corey S. Hendershot, Christian S. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Comorbidity between problem gambling and depression or anxiety is common. Further, the treatment needs of people with co-occurring gambling and mental health symptoms may be different from those of problem gamblers who do not have a co-occurring mental health concern. The current randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate whether there is a benefit to providing access to mental health Internet interventions (G + MH intervention) in addition to an Internet intervention for problem gambling (G-only intervention) in participants with gambling problems who do or do not have co-occurring mental health symptoms. METHODS: Potential participants will be screened using an online survey to identify participants meeting criteria for problem gambling. As part of the baseline screening process, measures of current depression and anxiety will be assessed. Eligible participants agreeing (N = 280) to take part in the study will be randomized to one of two versions of an online intervention for gamblers – an intervention that just targets gambling issues (G-only) versus a website that contains interventions for depression and anxiety in addition to an intervention for gamblers (G + MH). It is predicted that problem gamblers who do not have co-occurring mental health symptoms will display no significant difference between intervention conditions at a six-month follow-up. However, for those with co-occurring mental health symptoms, it is predicted that participants receiving access to the G + MH website will display significantly reduced gambling outcomes at six-month follow-up as compared to those provided with G-only website. DISCUSSION: The trial will produce information on the best means of providing online help to gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02800096; Registration date: June 14, 2016. |
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spelling | pubmed-49573122016-07-23 Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial Cunningham, John A. Hodgins, David C. Bennett, Kylie Bennett, Anthony Talevski, Marina Mackenzie, Corey S. Hendershot, Christian S. BMC Public Health Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Comorbidity between problem gambling and depression or anxiety is common. Further, the treatment needs of people with co-occurring gambling and mental health symptoms may be different from those of problem gamblers who do not have a co-occurring mental health concern. The current randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate whether there is a benefit to providing access to mental health Internet interventions (G + MH intervention) in addition to an Internet intervention for problem gambling (G-only intervention) in participants with gambling problems who do or do not have co-occurring mental health symptoms. METHODS: Potential participants will be screened using an online survey to identify participants meeting criteria for problem gambling. As part of the baseline screening process, measures of current depression and anxiety will be assessed. Eligible participants agreeing (N = 280) to take part in the study will be randomized to one of two versions of an online intervention for gamblers – an intervention that just targets gambling issues (G-only) versus a website that contains interventions for depression and anxiety in addition to an intervention for gamblers (G + MH). It is predicted that problem gamblers who do not have co-occurring mental health symptoms will display no significant difference between intervention conditions at a six-month follow-up. However, for those with co-occurring mental health symptoms, it is predicted that participants receiving access to the G + MH website will display significantly reduced gambling outcomes at six-month follow-up as compared to those provided with G-only website. DISCUSSION: The trial will produce information on the best means of providing online help to gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02800096; Registration date: June 14, 2016. BioMed Central 2016-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4957312/ /pubmed/27449527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3291-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Cunningham, John A. Hodgins, David C. Bennett, Kylie Bennett, Anthony Talevski, Marina Mackenzie, Corey S. Hendershot, Christian S. Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title | Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | Online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | online interventions for problem gamblers with and without co-occurring mental health symptoms: protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27449527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3291-7 |
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