Hedge Your Bets
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You will begin with the Program Orientation Module. This module will introduce you to the Hedge Your Bets program, outline how to work through the program, tell you about the incentive lottery, and describe the interactive features of the program.
The Post-Program Survey contains six sections that you must complete before beginning the program content. What assessments are included in the Post-Program Survey? Have a look:
The Criminal History Measure
The Demographics Measure
The Gambling Behavior Questionnaire-Combined
The Problem and Pathological Gambling Measure
The Gambling Attitudes Questionnaire
The Gambling Knowledge Survey
The Program Orientation Module
The Pre-Program Survey
Content Module 1: Gambling Knowledge
This module focuses on gambling knowledge.
You will learn about the history of gambling, what is considered gambling, and gambling across cultures. You will also learn about the House Edge, which makes commercially-provided gambling lucrative for the gambling venues, but not for the gambler.
Content Module 2: Gambling Fallacies
This module focuses on gambling fallacies, which are beliefs held about gambling that are untrue. Many of these mistaken beliefs contribute to people’s poor gambling decisions, thereby increasing gambling harm. The Hedge Your Bets program teaches you to recognize these mistaken beliefs so they do not influence your decisions.
Content Module 3: Gambling-related Skills
This module will address some basic math knowledge and skills, to improve your understanding of factors relevant to gambling (such as random chance and odds). This module also offers a little fun, in the form of a coin-flipping simulator and some probability games.
This module will address common gambling problems, including problem and pathological gambling. You will learn about the risk factors and signs of problem gambling, as well as safe gambling strategies to protect yourself from harm.
Content Module 4: Gambling Problems
The final two modules of the program are simply for purposes of data collection. These are the modules that will allow us to see how effective the program is. This data is very important to determining the efficacy of the Hedge Your Bets Program.
The Post-Program Survey and the Follow-up Survey consist of the same three sections:
The Gambling Behavior Questionnaire
The Gambling Attitudes Questionnaire
The Gambling Knowledge Survey