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Active, not recruitingNCT07488871Updated Mar 23, 2026

Seeking Treatment for Gambling - a 10-year Retrospective Clinical and Register Study of Gambling Patterns and Physical and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients With Gambling Disorder

An observational study in Gambling Disorder, sponsored by Region Skane. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-03-23.

Sponsored by Region Skane · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
1,200
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Retrospective chart review and register study of all patients who sought treatment at Region Skåne gambling disorder treatment unit, from December, 2015, through November, 2025. Patients' problematic gambling patterns, gambling self-exclusion behaviour and existing comorbidities and medications, are studied in association with routes of referral, prior treatment contacts and diagnoses for mental and physical disorders in primary care and specialist care.

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For all patients seeking treatment during the full 10-year history of the facility (December, 2015-November, 2025), the following variables are gathered and described and studied with respect to associations with one another:

  • Age
  • Legal gender
  • Tobacco use and alcohol problems requiring treatment
  • Problematic gambling type(s), such as sports betting, online casino, horse race betting, land-based electronic gambling machines, bingo, and gambling within videogames.
  • History of voluntary self-exclusion from gambling on the Swedish nationwide system for self-exclusion from licensed gambling operators (the so-called 'Spelpaus' system)
  • Living conditions (housing) and socio-economic conditions (over-indebtedness, history of enforcement agency contacts, granted debt settlement)
  • Current employment status (unemployed, degree of employment)
  • Co-morbid psychiatric and physical disorders
  • Prescribed medications
  • Emergency hospital visits for mental health disorders (at psychiatric emergency units)
  • In-patient psychiatric treatment episodes (including duration of hospitalisations)
  • Routes of referral to the gambling disorder treatment unit (self-referral, primary care, occupational health care, psychiatric units, social services, health care unit for physical disease, or other units)
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Conditions studied

  • Gambling Disorder

Keywords

  • gambling disorder
  • comorbidity
  • self-exclusion
  • mental health disorder
  • physical disease
  • pharmaceutical treatment
  • social services
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In context

Gambling

158 studies on the registry are indexed under Gambling; 42 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 1,200 is above the median of 213 across 23 observational studies indexed under Gambling.

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Lead sponsor

Region Skane is the lead sponsor of 386 studies on the registry; 122 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden, Dec, 2015-Nov, 2025

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Malmö, Sweden, Dec, 2015-Nov, 2025

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Treatment occasions considered, after chart review, to not have detected any need for problem gambling assessment or intervention.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
1,200 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • Patients seeking treatment at the Gambling disorder treatment unit of Region Skåne, Sweden

    Behavioral: Treatment uptake

Interventions

  • BehavioralTreatment uptake

    Initiation of assessment/treatment in treatment-seeking individuals.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Longitudinal change in clinical picture.

    Longitudinal change in clinical picture with respect to gambling pattern, self-exclusion behavior, physical and psychiatric comorbidity, routes of treatment seeking, and need for emergency/in-patient care.

    Time frame: Full observational period (10 years).

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Study locations

1 site
  • Malmö Addiction Center, Gambling disorder treatment unit
    Malmö, 20502, Sweden
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Because data are confidential health care documentation which cannot legally be shared with other researchers.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 23, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07488871
Lead sponsor
Region Skane
Collaborators
Lund University
Responsible party
Anders C Håkansson (Professor, consultant physician, Region Skane) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 23, 2026
Start date
Mar 9, 2026
Primary completion
Jun 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 23, 2026

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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