The National Center for Responsible Gaming offers Seed Grants in support of a variety of research activities, exploring the etiology, prevention and treatment of gambling disorder.
Topics for 2019 include:
- Public health policy on prevention and treatment of gambling disorder, with special focus on health disparities
- Public policy, such as laws and regulations designed to reduce gambling-related harms
- Tribal gaming policy designed to reduce gambling-related harms
- Social and economic impact of gambling
- Treatment provider policy on screening, diagnosis and treatment of gambling disorder
- Policies of private entities designed to address gambling-related harms
- Population studies with ramifications for policy
- The efficacy and safety of self-exclusion from gaming venues and internet gambling sites
- Education and awareness for the public, gambling patrons and gambling employees
- Structural changes to gambling devices designed to moderate excessive gambling behavior
- The impact of the physical and informational environment
- Pre-commitment and mandatory or voluntary limits on wagering amounts and time
- Gambling on a continuum from healthy to disordered
- Lower risk gambling guidelines
- Tracking behavioral characteristics, especially in internet gambling
Funding: $75,000 per year
Duration: 2 years
Research Authority deadline: 26.5.19
LOI (required) due date: 3.6.19
Full proposal due date: 3.9.19