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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Personalized Feedback Intervention for Problem Gamblers 1,2,3 5 4 1,2 John A. Cunningham *, David C. Hodgins , Tony Toneatto , Michelle Murphy 1 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 5 Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Abstract Background: Personalized feedback is a promising self-help for problem gamblers. Such interventions have shown consistently positive results with other addictive behaviours, and our own pilot test of personalized normative feedback materials for gamblers yielded positive findings. The current randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness, and the sustained efficacy, of the personalized feedback intervention materials for problem gamblers. Methodology/Principal Findings: Respondents recruited by a general population telephone screener of Ontario adults included gamblers with moderate and severe gambling problems. Those who agreed to participate were randomly assigned to receive: 1) the full personalized normative feedback intervention; 2) a partial feedback that contained all the feedback information provided to those in condition 1 but without the normative feedback content (i.e., no comparisons provided to general population gambling norms); or 3) a waiting list control condi