TY - JOUR
T1 - Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care
T2 - Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users
AU - Forward, Cat
AU - Norrie, Caroline
AU - Bramley, Stephanie
AU - Riley, Liz
AU - Shearer, James
AU - Finch, Emily
AU - Stewart, Glenn
AU - Fletcher, Paul
AU - Manthorpe, Jill
AU - Wardle, Heather
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by part of a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded project under its Research for Social Care Programme (Grant Reference Number NIHR201878). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. Caroline Norrie and the HSCWRU at KCL is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration South London (NIHR ARC South London) at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Conflict of interest statement. C.N., S.B., J.M., L.R. and H.W. have all received research funding from GambleAware (GA), a national charity mandated by UK government to fund research into gambling-related harms. C.N., S.B. and J.M. have received research funding from GamCare. S.B. was previously employed by Citizens Advice Calderdale as a Gambling Support Service Trainer following GambleAware’s partnership with Citizens Advice. L.R. has also received funding directly from industry to conduct research on support services. H.W. was Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board on Safer Gambling (2015–2020), which provides advice to the Gambling Commission on gambling policy and was remunerated by them. She runs a research consultancy which provides research services to public and third sector parties. She does not nor has not provided research or consultancy services to industry. E.F. was previously a Trustee of GamCare.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Gambling harms are disproportionately experienced among disadvantaged groups and as such, adult social care (ASC) practitioners are well-placed to identify and support affected individuals. There exists no evidence-based ‘introductory’ question for practitioners to identify those at risk of gambling harms, which includes family and friends (‘affected others’). To develop an ‘introductory’ question for use in English ASC, we conducted a scoping review that identified fifteen potential questions. Questions were refined through expert panel review groups (n = 13), cognitive interviewing (n = 18), test–retest reliability checks (n = 20) and validity testing (n = 2,100) against gold-standard measures of problem gambling behaviour. The question development process produced two questions suitable for testing in local authority (LA) ASC departments. These were (i) ‘Do you feel you are affected by any gambling, either your own or someone else’s?’ and (ii) ‘If you or someone close to you gambles, do you feel it is causing you any worries?’ Each had good face validity, strong test–retest reliability, correlated highly with well-being measures and performed reasonably against validated measures of problem gambling. These two questions are currently being piloted by ASC practitioners in three English LAs to assess their feasibility for adoption in practice.
AB - Gambling harms are disproportionately experienced among disadvantaged groups and as such, adult social care (ASC) practitioners are well-placed to identify and support affected individuals. There exists no evidence-based ‘introductory’ question for practitioners to identify those at risk of gambling harms, which includes family and friends (‘affected others’). To develop an ‘introductory’ question for use in English ASC, we conducted a scoping review that identified fifteen potential questions. Questions were refined through expert panel review groups (n = 13), cognitive interviewing (n = 18), test–retest reliability checks (n = 20) and validity testing (n = 2,100) against gold-standard measures of problem gambling behaviour. The question development process produced two questions suitable for testing in local authority (LA) ASC departments. These were (i) ‘Do you feel you are affected by any gambling, either your own or someone else’s?’ and (ii) ‘If you or someone close to you gambles, do you feel it is causing you any worries?’ Each had good face validity, strong test–retest reliability, correlated highly with well-being measures and performed reasonably against validated measures of problem gambling. These two questions are currently being piloted by ASC practitioners in three English LAs to assess their feasibility for adoption in practice.
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U2 - 10.1093/bjsw/bcad155
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bcad155
M3 - Article
SN - 0045-3102
VL - 53
SP - 3584
EP - 3607
JO - British Journal of Social Work
JF - British Journal of Social Work
IS - 8
M1 - bcad155
ER -