"While screening for problem gambling takes place in both clinical settings and in population research, the challenges related to screening in these different settings are distinct. The challenge in clinical settings is that existing problem gambling screens are too long to consider for routine use in intake interviews. The challenges in population research relate to the low base rate of problem and pathological gambling in the general population as well as the length of standard problem gambling screens.
While several short assessment tools for problem gambling have been developed over the past decade, none of these screens is well-known or widely used. This paper reports on the performance of the three-item NODS-CLiP in two large samples of adults in the general population in the USA as well as in a clinical sample of American problem and pathological gamblers receiving brief interventions. The paper then focuses on some upcoming work related to the NODS-CLiP, including a study to assess the performance of the screen in relation to a large sample of clinically adjudicated problem and pathological gamblers and a proposal to test the effectiveness of adding the NODS-CLiP as an opportunistic screen in a community health centre in Ontario."