Youth gambling education and prevention :
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L year, the Responsibility in Gambling Trust (RiGT) commissioned Tacade and the International Gaming Research Unit to produce education materials on youth gambling to be used in schools and other youth education settings. This initiative was featured in a previous issue of Education and Health (see Buczkiewicz & Griffiths, 2006) and the project led to the publication of two sets of comprehensive resources (You Bet! and Just Another Game?). Given the investment by RiGT in these educational materials, the obvious questions to ask are whether these and other similar materials actually work? Are they cost-effective? How long do any effects last? If there is little evidence of behaviour change, is awareness raising enough? The new materials that Tacade and the International Gaming Research Unit produced have yet to be formally evaluated although initial feedback has been very good to excellent. For instance:
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