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- Gamification and serious games are the most common forms of game-based treatments in healthcare studies. Gamification is the process of incorporating game design elements into non-game contexts, such as business, education, or healthcare, to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals.
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Dec 1, 2021 · In this paper, we propose a framework for the gamification of mental health care therapies. First, we analyzed existing mental health care gamifications and propose the concept of the game therapy world to illustrate how game elements could be integrated into therapeutic activities.
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- Oct-Dec 2021
May 7, 2019 · Summary. Physicians often struggle to help patients change their health behaviors. Patients may know that they need to quit smoking, lose weight, or exercise more, but summoning the will to...
Jan 9, 2017 · We illustrate six major categories of tested applied games for mental health (exergames, virtual reality, cognitive behavior therapy-based games, entertainment games, biofeedback, and cognitive training games) and demonstrate that it is feasible to translate traditional evidence-based interventions into computer gaming formats and to exploit ...
Sep 7, 2023 · Game-based digital mental health interventions (gDMHIs) challenge the traditional approach to mental health treatment that consists of interpersonal therapeutic interaction with a mental health professional and pharmacological therapies.
Feb 7, 2023 · Gamification and serious games are the most common forms of game-based treatments in healthcare studies. Gamification is the process of incorporating game design elements into non-game contexts, such as business, education, or healthcare, to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals [11].
Feb 2, 2022 · Study quality varied, with studies rated high (n = 3), moderate (n = 6), low (n = 3) and very low (n = 2). The available evidence suggests that serious games could be an effective format for an intervention to reduce mental health symptoms and improve outcomes of individuals.
Oct 25, 2024 · Across the healthcare industry, the challenge of patient adherence is often discussed and game-based therapeutics could provide a solution to this particular problem – by providing a therapy...
