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Trial reportGames for health journal2016

Older Adults' Engagement During an Intervention Involving Off-the-Shelf Videogame.

Patrícia Belchior, Michael Marsiske, Walter L Leite, Anna Yam, Kelsey Thomas, William Mann

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Games for health journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Patrícia Belchior1 School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University , Montreal, Canada .
Michael Marsiske3 Clinical and Health Psychology Department, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida.
Walter L Leite4 College of Education, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida.
Anna Yam5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente - Northern California .
Kelsey Thomas3 Clinical and Health Psychology Department, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida.
William Mann6 Center of Innovation and Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Gainesville, Florida.

Funding

University of Florida Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)P30AG028740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI CHRISTIAAN LEEUWENBURGH · 2007 to 2026
$22.8M
Research Training in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Cognition in Aging, MCI, and Alzheimer's DiseaseT32AG020499 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MARSISKE, MICHAEL, SMITH, GLENN E. · 2003 to 2024
$3.7M
FLUID REASONING TRAINING FOR URBAN ELDERSU01AG014276 · NIA · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MARSISKE, MICHAEL · 1996 to 2010
$2.7M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028740NIA NIH HHS T32 AG020499NIA NIH HHS U01 AG014276
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe overall goal of our current study was to examine older adults' experience of Flow (i.e., subjective engagement) during the course of a home-based cognitive training program. MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this study, participants took part in a home-based training program. They were randomized to one of the two training groups. One group played an off-the-shelf videogame (i.e., Crazy Taxi), and the other group played a brain training game (i.e., Insight). Training consisted of 60 training sessions of 1 hour each, which were completed in 3 months (5 hours a week). After each training session, participants completed a Flow questionnaire to measure their engagement with the training.

resultsThe analysis was performed with a linear growth curve model. The results indicate that on average, there was no change in flow for the Insight group between time points. There was no difference between the initial flow status of the Insight group and the Crazy Taxi group. However, the interaction between group membership and time was statistically significant, indicating that the participants in the Crazy Taxi group increased their scores at each week at a rate that was 0.99 larger than those in the Insight group.

conclusionThe analyses revealed that both groups experienced increase in Flow over the period, but only participants in the Crazy Taxi group significantly improved in Flow. This has long-term implications since we would expect participation to go beyond 12 weeks in a real-world scenario.

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AttentionCognitionAgedAged, 80 and overAnalysis of VarianceFemaleHumansMaleSurveys and QuestionnairesVideo Games

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PMID27310479
PMCPMC5079422

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