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Defining treatment response in gambling disorder

Defining treatment response in gambling disorder
Defining treatment response in gambling disorder
Background: gambling disorder is a common mental health condition, and a growing cause of concern globally. Despite the availability of well-validated self-report and clinical instruments to measure symptom severity, there has been no study to establish optimal thresholds for determining treatment response based on these measures.

Methods: data from 553 participants (aged 18-65 years) who had participated in previous pharmacological and psychotherapeutic clinical trials for gambling disorder were aggregated. Studies were included that collected Clinical Global Impression Improvement (CGI-I) at end-of-study (reference standard), as well as baseline and end-of-study symptom severity using the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (GSAS) and/or the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS). Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) analyses were conducted to identify optimal thresholds for determining treatment response.

Results: greater than 50% improvement in PG-YBOCS and
GSAS, PG-YBOCS, ROC, gambling, response, treatment, Response, Gambling, Treatment
0022-3956
382-386
Grant, Jon E.
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos
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Chamberlain, Samuel R.
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Grant, Jon E.
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos
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Chamberlain, Samuel R.
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Grant, Jon E., Ioannidis, Konstantinos and Chamberlain, Samuel R. (2024) Defining treatment response in gambling disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 180, 382-386. (doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.11.006).

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Abstract

Background: gambling disorder is a common mental health condition, and a growing cause of concern globally. Despite the availability of well-validated self-report and clinical instruments to measure symptom severity, there has been no study to establish optimal thresholds for determining treatment response based on these measures.

Methods: data from 553 participants (aged 18-65 years) who had participated in previous pharmacological and psychotherapeutic clinical trials for gambling disorder were aggregated. Studies were included that collected Clinical Global Impression Improvement (CGI-I) at end-of-study (reference standard), as well as baseline and end-of-study symptom severity using the Gambling Symptom Assessment Scale (GSAS) and/or the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Modified for Pathological Gambling (PG-YBOCS). Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) analyses were conducted to identify optimal thresholds for determining treatment response.

Results: greater than 50% improvement in PG-YBOCS and

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Accepted/In Press date: 3 November 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 November 2024
Published date: 9 November 2024
Keywords: GSAS, PG-YBOCS, ROC, gambling, response, treatment, Response, Gambling, Treatment

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Local EPrints ID: 496105
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496105
ISSN: 0022-3956
PURE UUID: 90033982-9717-43ae-b363-bb494396cb8d
ORCID for Samuel R. Chamberlain: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7014-8121

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Date deposited: 04 Dec 2024 17:35
Last modified: 19 Mar 2025 03:11

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Author: Jon E. Grant
Author: Konstantinos Ioannidis
Author: Samuel R. Chamberlain ORCID iD

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