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NCT04714008: CONGA
Covid-19 and ONline GAmbling
trial in Gambling in 120,000 participants. Completed in 31 December 2024.
31 December 2024
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Nantes University Hospital |
|---|---|
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | OBSERVATIONAL |
| Enrollment | 120,000 |
| Start date | 1 December 2020 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2024 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2024 |
| Sites | 1 location across France |
Conditions studied
Sponsor
Nantes University Hospital
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Gambling or Covid19. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents a major threat to global health. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, all eyes have been focused on the significant somatic complications of COVID-19, but the impact on behaviors, particularly those that can lead to addictive disorders, remains little studied. A set of factors could explain a change in gambling activities, both in number of gamblers and in intensity of practices, due to the pandemic. On the one hand, the reduction or even the interruption of sporting and horse racing competitions may induce a decrease in these activities (both online and offline). Moreover, the closure of certain gambling venues and travel restrictions may also lead to a decrease of offline gambling activities in general. On the other hand, gamblers who can no longer perform their usual gambling activity could refer to available online gambling activities (poker, lotteries, casinos, etc.). Moreover, the threat of a financial crisis, the negative impact on psychological well-being (due to social isolation, stress of being infected, etc.), and increased time spent freely online, could also very largely motivate an initiation or an exacerbation of the gambling activity, especially online and in people in a situation of vulnerability. Both in France and Sweden, the closing of sports and horse race events has led to a sharp decrease in sports and horse-race betting. In both countries, the increase in other gambling types, including illegal gambling, and their potential for gambling problems is a source of concerns for public health authorities. As a consequence, more research is promptly needed in this area. The use of gambling tracking data, widely acclaimed in recent years in research on online gambling given its ecological nature, could allow observing longitudinally changes in online gambling practices (both the raw gambling activity and risky behaviors) and in the use of responsible gambling (RG) tools due to the pandemic. Moreover, the combination of French and Swedish data will allow comparing two countries with very distinct politics regarding the pandemics, i.e. a lockdown in France in March - May 2020 and then in November - December 2020 compared to no lockdown in Sweden. Finally, gambling in women is on the rise and women display specific gambling behaviors, especially in early stages of the online gambling practice. The project will include the investigation of gender specificities both in the investigation of the impacts of the pandemic and in the comparison of French and Sweden gambling behaviors. Age, type of gambling activity and country (France / Sweden) will also be taken into account.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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