Examining the efficacy of a personalized normative feedback intervention to reduce college student gambling.
J Am Coll Health
; 62(3): 154-64, 2014.
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| ID: mdl-24295507
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the efficacy of a stand-alone personalized normative feedback (PNF) intervention targeting misperceptions of gambling among college students.PARTICIPANTS:
Undergraduates (N = 136; 55% male) who reported gambling in the past 30 days were recruited between September 2011 and March 2012.METHODS:
Using a randomized clinical trial design, participants were assigned to receive either PNF or an attention control task. In addition to self-report, this study used 2 computer-based risk tasks framed as "gambling opportunities" to assess cognitive and behavioral change at 1 week post intervention.RESULTS:
After 1 week, participants receiving PNF showed a marked decrease in perception of other students' gambling, and evinced lower risk-taking performance on 2 analog measures of gambling.CONCLUSIONS:
Changes in both self-reported perceived norms and analog gambling behavior suggest that a single, stand-alone PNF intervention may modify gambling among college students. Whether it can impact gambling outside of the laboratory remains untested.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students
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Feedback, Psychological
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Social Norms
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Gambling
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Am Coll Health
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Publication country:
EEUU
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ESTADOS UNIDOS
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ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMERICA
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EUA
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UNITED STATES
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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US
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USA