Deposit Limit Prompt in Online Gambling for Reducing Gambling Intensity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

consumer protection deposit limit natural gambling environment online gambling pre-commitment problem gambling responsible gambling

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 30 10 2018
accepted: 07 03 2019
entrez: 20 4 2019
pubmed: 20 4 2019
medline: 20 4 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Pre-commitment tools - allowing users of gambling services to pre-set a limit for how much money they may spend - are relatively common. However, there exist no clear evidence of their effectiveness in preventing gamblers from spending more money than they otherwise planned. The aim of the study was to compare gambling intensity between users of an online gambling service prompted to set a deposit limit and non-prompted customers, both in the whole sample and among most active users based on the total number of gambling days. Prospective customers of a publicly governed gambling operator from Finland were randomized to receive a prompt to set a voluntary deposit limit of optional size either (1) at registration, (2) before or (3) after their first deposit, or (4) to an unprompted control condition. Data on customers from Finland with online slots as a preferred gambling category (

Identifiants

pubmed: 31001160
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00639
pmc: PMC6455077
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

639

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Auteurs

Ekaterina Ivanova (E)

Division of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kristoffer Magnusson (K)

Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.

Per Carlbring (P)

Division of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

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