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

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Conditions studied: Gambling Disorder

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04158037

Run by

St. Louis University

People needed

0

Starts

2024-07-31

Expected to finish

2025-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Currently meets DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder
• At least 4 non-online gambling episodes in past 60 days
• Wagering at least $100 total over past 60 days
• Willingness to accept random assignment
• English speaking
• Android phone user

You may not qualify if…

• Age <18 years old
• Severely disruptive behavior
• Serious uncontrolled psychiatric behavior that requires acute psychiatric care
• Decline permission to collect zero permission data from smartphone.

Where it is running

• Saint Louis University — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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