ArticlePloS one2022
Optimizing large-scale gambling prevention with adolescents through the development and evaluation of a training course for health professionals: The case of PRIZE.
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- Gambling in women: A systematic review of interventions and prevention approaches.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Pooled it
- SAFESLOT: an experimental virtual reality protocol to examine flow, craving, and cognitive biases in gambling.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mitigating Gambling-Related Harms in Children and Young People: A Scoping Review of Interventions.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- What is known about population level programs designed to address gambling-related harm: rapid review of the evidence.Harm reduction journal · 2024Review
- Evaluation of Effectiveness of the Unplugged Program on Gambling Behaviours among Adolescents: Study Protocol of the Experimental Controlled Study "GAPUnplugged".Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- A Structural Equation Model to Explain Gambling Problem Severity in Adolescents with an Integrated Perspective.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
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- Loot boxes use, video gaming, and gambling in adolescents: Results from a path analysis before and during COVID-19-pandemic-related lockdown in Italy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
In the field of adolescent gambling prevention, there is a lack of intervention studies reporting and assessing training courses for the intervention providers. The present work fills this gap by realizing a dissemination study inside the PRIZE program aimed at modifying a set of cognitive protective factors and affective risk factors. The purpose of this work was twofold: To develop and evaluate a training course with the intervention providers (Study 1), and to assess the short- and long-term effects of the intervention itself (Study 2). The training course was delivered to 44 health professionals (32 females, Mage = 39.34 years). Results showed a significant increase of correct knowledge about gambling and a significant reduction of their susceptibility to probabilistic reasoning biases. Participants also actually learnt the main competencies to conduct the educational activities, they were satisfied for the training course received, and they felt high levels of self-efficacy. The intervention was implemented with 1894 high school students (61% males; Mage = 15.68 years). In the short term, we found a significant increase of adolescents' correct gambling knowledge, random events knowledge, and probabilistic reasoning ability, and a significant decrease of superstitious thinking, monetary positive outcome expectation, and gambling-related erroneous thoughts and fallacious behavioral choices. In the long-term, a significant decrease of gambling frequency, gambling versatility, and gambling problem severity was obtained. Overall, this work highlights the importance to train prevention program providers in order to optimize the effectiveness of large-scale gambling intervention programs towards adolescents.
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