An overview of digital and online strategies to reduce gambling harm

Abstract

Advancements in mobile‐ and web‐based technologies proliferate everyday opportunities to gamble. The increased availability, popularity and intensity of online gambling platforms and interactive gaming activities also changes the way we construct gambling harm reduction interventions. Information and communication technologies (ICT) provide potential opportunities to reduce harm from online gambling through harm minimisation initiatives and currently available services. The aim of this review was to firstly understand the scope of peer‐reviewed evidence on ICT‐based strategies to reduce online gambling harm, and secondly, what evidence exists specifically in relation to ICT‐based harm reduction initiatives for people who gamble online.