An interventional study of Unplugged plus gambling component in Gambling, sponsored by Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 12 Years to 14 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-11-29.
Sponsored by Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The main aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a new component on gambling prevention to be added to the evidence-based school based prevention curriculum "Unplugged". The evaluation of effectiveness will be performed by conducting a non-randomized cluster controlled trial in classes of pupils 12 to 14 years old. Classes will be allocated to the intervention arm (receving Unplugged + the gambling component) or to the control arm (usual curriculum, no specific intervention).
The intervention includes 12 prevention units and a 13th unit focused on gambling. It will be carried out by Unplugged teachers trained in a specific training course. Data collection will take place before and after the intervention through a standardized questionnaire developed ad hoc and containing previously validated questions.
The goals of the present non-randomized cluster controlled experimental trial (CCT) with follow-up at 4-8 weeks after the end of the intervention are:
Unplugged is a school-based curriculum aimed to prevent tobacco, alcohol and drugs use among adolescents, developed and tested in the EUDap trial (www.eudap.net). It was demonstrated to be effective in several studies (Faggiano 2007; 2008; 2010; Gabrhelik 2012; Sanchez 2021; Vigna-Taglianti 2021) and included among evidence-based prevention programs (EMCDDA; Foxcroft 2011; Catalano 2012).
Secondary schools in Lazio, Piedmont and other Italian regions will be invited to take part in the study. Participation is voluntary for both the intervention and the control group. The schools participating in the study will inform caregivers and ask their consent for the participationof students and the data collection. Only students whose caregivers have given consent to participate will be involved in the study which will last about 7 months. The first questionnaire will be administered between November and December 2022 both in the control and the intervention group. Afterwards, the intervention group will received the 12 units of the Unplugged program and the gambling component, for about 3 months. Finally, after 4 to 8 weeks from the completion of the program, the same evaluation questionnaire will be administeres both in the control and in the intervention classes.
The questionnaire will be anonymous and will report only a pseudo-anonymization code for linkage of baseline and follow-up data. At the end of the survey, data will be analyzed in aggregated and anonymized form.
147 studies on the registry are indexed under Gambling; 35 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 3,046 is above the median of 65 across 119 interventional studies indexed under Gambling.
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Exclusion Criteria:
The experimental arm will receive the Unplugged curriculum plus a gambling component
Behavioral: Unplugged plus gambling component
The Usual curriculum arm won't receive any specific prevention program
12 units/lessons of the Unplugged prevention curriculum plus a gambling component including specific gambling contents in units 3-4-5-7-9 and a 13th unit based on probability and mathematical concepts taught through an online simulator
Also known as: GAPUnplugged
Prevalence of gambling behaviors
past 30 days frequency of gambling behaviors
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Prevalence of at-risk gambling behavior
past 30 days frequency of at risk indicator according to the definition of SOGS-RA (Wiebe 2000)
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Beliefs about gambling
score of the 7 items scale assessing false beliefs concerning gambling (e.g. "If I gamble often, I have a greater chance of winning").
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Attitudes towards gambling
score of the 6 items scale assessing attitudes about gambling by asking "What do you think about gambling" (e.g. "I think gambling is fun").
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Refusal skills for gambling
proportion of pupils answering they will refuse vs accept the proposal of gambling from a friend (three scenarios)
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Normative perceptions on gambling
proportion of pupils scoring as \>50% the proportion of friends or people of their age who gamble
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
Risk perceptions on gambling
proportion of pupils with high vs low risk perceptions towards gambling as measured by a question asking "How much do you think people arm themselves by gambling to.."
Time frame: follow-up (4-8 weeks after completion of intervention)
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Plan to share: Yes — IPD will made available for other researchers under specific request, specifying the aim. Data will be generally provided as aggregated. In case of common scientific framework, data will be provided as individual.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf, Csr, Analytic code
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