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| General | |
| Identification | |
| Detailed name | Case-Control Study on Poker Players: Study on Cognitive Mechanisms and the Specificity of Poker-related Problems. Preliminary Study for Implementing a Specific Cognitive Remediation Procedure |
| Sign or acronym | PERHAPS |
| General Aspects | |
| Medical area |
Psychology and psychiatry |
| Health determinants |
Addictions Healthcare system and access to health care services Lifestyle and behavior Social and psychosocial factors |
| Keywords | experimental study, cognitive mechanisms, cognitive remediation, pathological gambling, poker |
| Scientific investigator(s) (Contact) | |
| Name of the director | Bouju |
| Surname | Gaëlle |
| Address |
Hôpital Saint Jacques – Bâtiment Louis Philippe 85 rue de Saint Jacques – 44 093 Nantes cedex 1 |
| Phone | + 33 (0)2 40 84 76 20 |
| gaelle.bouju@chu-nantes.fr | |
| Unit | Nantes University Hospital Addiction Treatment Department/Clinical Investigation Unit CIU 18: Behavioural Addictions and Complex Mood Disorders/EA 4275 Sphere |
| Organization | Nantes University Hospital |
| Collaborations | |
| Funding | |
| Funding status |
Public |
| Details | Nantes University Hospital internal tendering |
| Governance of the database | |
| Sponsor(s) or organisation(s) responsible | CHU de Nantes - Institut Fédératif des Addictions Comportementales (IFAC) - Unité d'Investigation Clinique "Addictions Comportementales et Troubles de l'Humeur Complexes" |
| Organisation status |
Public |
| Presence of scientific or steering committees |
No |
| Additional contact | |
| Main features | |
| Type of database | |
| Type of database |
Study databases |
| Study databases (details) |
Case control study |
| Additional information regarding sample selection. |
Main study: one section of voluntary participants was selected through the press (“non-poker players” and “expert unproblematic poker players”). Another section was selected within the EVALADD cohort (“pathological poker players”) (n=60). Participants were randomly divided into 3 different groups after verifying eligibility:
Secondary study: the participants were selected within the EVALADD cohort (pathological gamblers of pure chance games, quasi-skill games and MMORPGs (massively multi-player online role-playing games) (n=45). Participants were randomly divided into 3 different groups after verifying eligibility. |
| Database objective | |
| Main objective | To verify the existence and describe the nature of cognitive deficits (attention and emotional perception abilities as well as mental flexibility and inhibition) in pathological poker players. The long-term objective is to construct a cognitive remediation therapy programme focussing on these cognitive deficits and to test it in a clinical trial that may be put out to national or regional PHRC (clinical hospital research programme) tender. |
| Inclusion criteria |
Inclusion criteria:
– adults younger than 60 years old – male – good understanding of French, literate – correct level of vision and hearing – Group 1 (main study): Texas Hold'em players with at least 3 months experience playing at least once a week – Group 2 (main study): Texas Hold'em players diagnosed as pathological gamblers according to DSM-5 – Groups S1 and S2 (secondary study): validation of pathological gambling diagnosis according to DSM-5 – Group 3 (secondary study): validation of problematic video game playing criteria according to PVP. |
| Population type | |
| Age |
Adulthood (19 to 24 years) Adulthood (25 to 44 years) Adulthood (45 to 64 years) |
| Population covered |
General population |
| Gender |
Male |
| Geography area |
Regional |
| French regions covered by the database |
Pays de la Loire |
| Detail of the geography area | Pays de la Loire |
| Data collection | |
| Dates | |
| Date of first collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 01/2016 (hypothetical) |
| Date of last collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 07/2018 (hypothetical) |
| Size of the database | |
| Size of the database (number of individuals) |
< 500 individuals |
| Details of the number of individuals | 150 participants (90 for the main study, 45 for the secondary study and 15 voluntary controls) |
| Data | |
| Database activity |
Current data collection |
| Type of data collected |
Clinical data Declarative data |
| Clinical data (detail) |
Direct physical measures |
| Declarative data (detail) |
Paper self-questionnaire Face to face interview Phone interview |
| Details of collected declarative data | Habits and gambling course from a standardised interview grid; self-administered questionnaires on general participant behaviour and some specific aspects of gambling practices; assessment of different cognitive tasks (attention and emotional perception abilities, mental flexibility and inhibition capacity). |
| Presence of a biobank |
No |
| Health parameters studied |
Quality of life/health perception |
| Procedures | |
| Data collection method | Heteroquestionnaires; self-administered questionnaires and cognitive tasks. |
| Classifications used | DSM-IV |
| Quality procedure(s) used | Electronic CRF entered through Clinsight. |
| Participant monitoring |
No |
| Links to administrative sources |
No |
| Promotion and access | |
| Promotion | |
| Access | |
| Terms of data access (charter for data provision, format of data, availability delay) | Contact the scientist in charge. |
| Access to aggregated data |
Access on specific project only |
| Access to individual data |
Access on specific project only |
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