RecruitingNot Applicable

Contingency Management as an Adjunct Treatment for Rural and Remote Disordered Gamblers

Canada54 participantsStarted 2016-11

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this project is to pilot contingency management as an adjunct treatment to counselling as usual using internet delivered video-conferencing applications for remote disordered gamblers. This project further investigates the impact of adding contingency management to counselling to improve counselling attendance and retention and uses internet-delivered approaches to assist rural and remote disordered gamblers gain access to counselling treatments.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 70 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * capable of providing written consent, * received a diagnosis of gambling disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), * gambled within the last month, * live in a rural or remote location, and * speak English Exclusion Criteria: * Medically unmanaged psychiatric or neurological disorder(s) except for disordered gambling

What they're measuring

Gambling Abstinence

Timeframe: 12 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02953899

SponsorUniversity of Lethbridge

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2026-12-31

Contact for this trial

Darren R Christensen, PhD

403-329-5124 darren.christensen@uleth.ca

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