Beliefs About Mental Health Treatment - Gambling Addiction Study in Colorado
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Monetary Incentive for Take-Up of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Gambling Disorder, Gambling Problem, Mental Health Issue. Basic parameters: from 21 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Stanford Gambling Addiction Therapy Study (SGATS) in Colorado
Overview
Many people with mental health conditions do not seek treatment, and it is unclear what exactly prevents people from taking up treatment. The goal of this interventional study is to learn about how people think about cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for gambling disorders. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Do people have incorrect beliefs about the net benefits of CBT? If yes, which beliefs are those, and how much do people underestimate or overestimate the benefits? * Is a small monetary incentive (that participants receive conditional on trying out CBT) helpful in increasing take-up of CBT? Apart from these questions, the researchers will also study how well CBT works to treat gambling disorders. Participants will be asked to complete two surveys over four months and might be offered a modest monetary incentive for doing (free) CBT if they are in the treatment group. Researchers will compare that treatment group to a control group. Participants in the control group will have access to free CBT and do the same two surveys as those in the treatment group, but will not receive the monetary incentive.
Interventions
- Behavioral Monetary Incentive for Take-Up of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Both treatment arms will be offered a monetary incentive (in form of a retail gift card) for undergoing a certain number of CBT sessions.
Primary outcome measures
- Change in Willingness to Pay for CBT [Time frame: Baseline and 4 months]
- Change in Beliefs about CBT [Time frame: Baseline and 4 months]
- Attendance of CBT sessions [Time frame: 4 months]
- Change in Gambling Consumption [Time frame: Baseline and 4 months]
- Change in Subjective Well-Being [Time frame: Baseline and 4 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- must reside in Colorado
- must be English-speaking
Exclusion criteria
- does not reside in Colorado
- is not English-speaking
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06517849 · 75109