NCT04158037

Don't Go There: A Geospatial mHealth App for Gambling Disorder

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Louis University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this project is to develop and to test the efficacy of a novel mHealth app for gambling disorder. The app capitalizes on smartphones' global positioning software (GPS) that recognizes a user's location to within 15 feet. Users will receive an alert of this go near a gambling venue. The project will conduct a 12-week pilot randomized clinical trial to test the short-term efficacy of the app with gambling disorder individuals.

Conditions

• Gambling Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mHealth App	The app uses smartphones' global positioning software (GPS) that recognizes a user's location to within 15 feet. The app will construct a customizable geofence (e.g., 3 miles) around a gambler's favored gambling venue (e.g., casino, gas station). If the individual crosses the fence boundary his or her phone will raise the alarm with a personalized motivational message.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-31
• Primary completion: 2025-05-31
• Completion: 2025-06-01
• First posted: 2019-11-08
• Last updated: 2025-08-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States