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Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE
In the field of adolescent gambling prevention, there is a lack of intervention studies reporting and assessing training courses for the intervention providers. The present work fills this gap by realizing a dissemination study inside the PRIZE program aimed at modifying a set of cognitive protectiv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35551314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266825 |
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author | Donati, Maria Anna Boncompagni, Jessica Iraci Sareri, Giuseppe Ridolfi, Sonia Iozzi, Adriana Cocci, Valentina Arena, Alfiero Primi, Caterina |
author_facet | Donati, Maria Anna Boncompagni, Jessica Iraci Sareri, Giuseppe Ridolfi, Sonia Iozzi, Adriana Cocci, Valentina Arena, Alfiero Primi, Caterina |
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description | In the field of adolescent gambling prevention, there is a lack of intervention studies reporting and assessing training courses for the intervention providers. The present work fills this gap by realizing a dissemination study inside the PRIZE program aimed at modifying a set of cognitive protective factors and affective risk factors. The purpose of this work was twofold: To develop and evaluate a training course with the intervention providers (Study 1), and to assess the short- and long-term effects of the intervention itself (Study 2). The training course was delivered to 44 health professionals (32 females, M(age) = 39.34 years). Results showed a significant increase of correct knowledge about gambling and a significant reduction of their susceptibility to probabilistic reasoning biases. Participants also actually learnt the main competencies to conduct the educational activities, they were satisfied for the training course received, and they felt high levels of self-efficacy. The intervention was implemented with 1894 high school students (61% males; M(age) = 15.68 years). In the short term, we found a significant increase of adolescents’ correct gambling knowledge, random events knowledge, and probabilistic reasoning ability, and a significant decrease of superstitious thinking, monetary positive outcome expectation, and gambling-related erroneous thoughts and fallacious behavioral choices. In the long-term, a significant decrease of gambling frequency, gambling versatility, and gambling problem severity was obtained. Overall, this work highlights the importance to train prevention program providers in order to optimize the effectiveness of large-scale gambling intervention programs towards adolescents. |
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spelling | pubmed-90979972022-05-13 Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE Donati, Maria Anna Boncompagni, Jessica Iraci Sareri, Giuseppe Ridolfi, Sonia Iozzi, Adriana Cocci, Valentina Arena, Alfiero Primi, Caterina PLoS One Research Article In the field of adolescent gambling prevention, there is a lack of intervention studies reporting and assessing training courses for the intervention providers. The present work fills this gap by realizing a dissemination study inside the PRIZE program aimed at modifying a set of cognitive protective factors and affective risk factors. The purpose of this work was twofold: To develop and evaluate a training course with the intervention providers (Study 1), and to assess the short- and long-term effects of the intervention itself (Study 2). The training course was delivered to 44 health professionals (32 females, M(age) = 39.34 years). Results showed a significant increase of correct knowledge about gambling and a significant reduction of their susceptibility to probabilistic reasoning biases. Participants also actually learnt the main competencies to conduct the educational activities, they were satisfied for the training course received, and they felt high levels of self-efficacy. The intervention was implemented with 1894 high school students (61% males; M(age) = 15.68 years). In the short term, we found a significant increase of adolescents’ correct gambling knowledge, random events knowledge, and probabilistic reasoning ability, and a significant decrease of superstitious thinking, monetary positive outcome expectation, and gambling-related erroneous thoughts and fallacious behavioral choices. In the long-term, a significant decrease of gambling frequency, gambling versatility, and gambling problem severity was obtained. Overall, this work highlights the importance to train prevention program providers in order to optimize the effectiveness of large-scale gambling intervention programs towards adolescents. Public Library of Science 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9097997/ /pubmed/35551314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266825 Text en © 2022 Donati et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Donati, Maria Anna Boncompagni, Jessica Iraci Sareri, Giuseppe Ridolfi, Sonia Iozzi, Adriana Cocci, Valentina Arena, Alfiero Primi, Caterina Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title | Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title_full | Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title_fullStr | Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title_short | Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE |
title_sort | optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: the case of prize |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35551314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266825 |
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