Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care

Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users

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ID10896371
AuthorsCat Forward (0000-0002-2796-346X, NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, The Policy Institute, King’s College London , London WC2B 6LE, UK, corresponding author), Caroline Norrie (0000-0001-6715-9305, NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, The Policy Institute, King’s College London , London WC2B 6LE, UK), Stephanie Bramley (0000-0003-2702-1672, University of York), Liz Riley (Research and Evaluation, Betknowmore UK , London EC1N 8QP, UK), James Shearer (0000-0002-1658-9767, King's College London), Emily Finch (0000-0002-6677-1567, King's College London), Glenn Stewart (0009-0001-4926-5988, Enfield Council,Civic Centre , Enfield EN1 3XA, UK), Paul Fletcher (0000-0001-8906-2280), Paul C Fletcher (0000-0001-8257-1517, Enfield Council,Civic Centre , Enfield EN1 3XA, UK), Jill Manthorpe (0000-0001-9006-1410, King's College London), Heather Wardle (0000-0003-1361-3706, Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Reader in Social Sciences, University of Glasgow , Glasgow G12 8RS, UK)
Year2023
Volume53
Issue8
Pages3584-3607
Publication date2023-12-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjsw/bcad155
OpenAlexW4381852826
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

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

Cognition · Cognitive interview · Disadvantaged · Face validity · Interview · Medical education · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Sociology · Test (biology) · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology

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