Villena-Moya, Alejandro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7240-4440
Granero, Roser
Chiclana-Actis, Carlos
Potenza, Marc N.
Blycker, Gretchen R.
Demetrovics, Zsolt
Bőthe, Beáta
Steward, Trevor
Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
Jiménez-Murcia, Susana
Mestre‑Bach, Gemma
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (RTI2018-101837-B-100)
Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (FIS PI14/00290, FIS PI17/01167)
Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (2019I47, 2021I031)
International Center for Responsible Gaming
Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Investigator Grant (MRF1193736)
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
University of Melbourne McKenzie Fellowship
Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (KKP126835, K131635)
CITEI B22-001 project
Article History
Received: 23 October 2022
Revised: 26 June 2023
Accepted: 6 September 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: Dr. Fernández-Aranda received consultancy honoraria from Novo Nordisk and editorial honoraria from Wiley. Dr. Potenza discloses that he has consulted for and advised Game Day Data, Addiction Policy Forum, AXA, Idorsia, Baria-Tek, and Opiant Therapeutics; been involved in a patent application with Yale University and Novartis; received research support from the Mohegan Sun Casino and the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling; consulted for or advised legal and gambling entities on issues related to impulse control and addictive behaviors; provided clinical care related to impulse-control and addictive behaviors; performed grant reviews; edited journals/journal sections; given academic lectures in grand rounds, CME events, and other clinical/scientific venues; and generated books or chapters for publishers of mental health texts. ELTE Eötvös Loránd University receives funding from the Szerencsejáték Ltd. to maintain a telephone helpline service for problematic gambling. ZD has also been involved in research on responsible gambling funded by Szerencsejáték Ltd. and the Gambling Supervision Board and provided educational materials for the Szerencsejáték Ltd’s responsible gambling program. The University of Gibraltar receives funding from the Gibraltar Gambling Care Foundation. However, these funding aren’t related to this study and the funding institution had no role in the study design or the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication. The rest of the authors have no conflicts of interest with the content of this manuscript.
: The Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the International University of La Rioja (reference PI: 018/2020) approved the study. The present study was conducted in accordance with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. A permit from the management boards of each school that agreed to participate in the study was obtained. Each school provided adult students and parents or legal guardians of underage students with information about the study. Those parents or minors who did not wish to participate informed the school board. It was clarified that participation was voluntary and non-remunerated, and individuals could withdraw at any time. All participants provided consent to being included in the study, and parents provided authorization in the case of minors.
: All participants provided consent to being included in the study, and parents provided authorization in the case of minors.