The Brief Biosocial Gambling Screen (BBGS)
The Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance created the Brief Biosocial Gambling Screen (BBGS) to help people decide on their own whether to seek a formal evaluation of their gambling behavior. Released in 2011, this 3-item survey is based on the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria for pathological gambling. The researchers’ objective was to develop a concise screening instrument that would correctly identify the largest proportion of current pathological gamblers and exclude non-pathological gamblers (i.e., reduce the number of false positives). The development of this screen was funded by the NCRG.
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