NCT02873572

Vulnerability Markers in Pathological Gambling

Marqueurs de vulnérabilité Aux Jeux Pathologiques

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Addictions without substances are an emergent problem giving rise to a recent and increasing request of care. Among these new addictions, pathological gambling and pathological online video gaming which are up. The purpose of this study is to identify vulnerability factors (personality traits, decision making strategies...), which are common or specific to each type of game (on line poker, casino, MMORPG, and no-gamers).

Conditions

• Gaming
• Gambling

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	step 1: online assessment	Anonymous psychiatric and behavioral assessments to evaluate in particular addiction or pathological gambling/gaming and behavioral profile of gamblers/gamers. Once questionnaire completed, if the subjects want to continue to participate, they sent their email to investigators.
BEHAVIORAL	step2: biomarkers of gamblers/gamers	For each arm, subjects were divided into 2 groups: dependant or not dependant gamblers/gamers. Investigators focused on decision-making biomarkers following the following flow-chart: * psychiatric assesment and * registration of brain activity during a decision-making task in conditions of uncertainty (IGT) with its version for HR-EEG validated by investigators (Giustiniani, 2015).

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-08-19
• Last updated: 2016-08-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France