SynthesisRevista latino-americana de enfermagem2018
Serious games as an educational strategy to control childhood obesity: a systematic literature review1.
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- Digital Health Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Serious Games to Increase Physical Activity in Children With a Chronic Disease: Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- The Kids Obesity Prevention Program: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Serious Game for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Nurseped: educational technology for safety in the management of intravenous antibiotics in pediatrics.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2023Review
- HelperFriend, a Serious Game for Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Children: Design and Pilot Study.JMIR serious games · 2022Article
- Healthy Lifestyle Management of Pediatric Obesity with a Hybrid System of Customized Mobile Technology: The PediaFit Pilot Project.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Improving Serious Games to Tackle Childhood Obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Optimizing Child Nutrition Education With the Foodbot Factory Mobile Health App: Formative Evaluation and Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2020Article
- Health Education Serious Games Targeting Health Care Providers, Patients, and Public Health Users: Scoping Review.JMIR serious games · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesto identify in the literature the efficacy of serious games to improve knowledge for and/or behavioral changes among overweight or obese children.
methodSystematic Literature Review. The Cochrane Systematic Reviews Handbook was used. The studies were collected from the following databases: Public Medline; Web Of Science; Science Direct; Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature; and the Health Game Research and Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. The descriptors were video games and obesity, while the key word was serious games. Inclusion criteria were: studies classified as Randomized Clinical Trials written in English, Spanish or Portuguese and in which children were the subjects of the study.
results2,722 studies were identified in the initial search and six studies remained in the final sample. The papers focused on encouraging behavioral changes in players, including physical exercise and improved eating habits. The studies report that serious games are a potential strategy to encourage positive coping with childhood obesity.
conclusionresearch in this field is an expanding and promising strategy and serious games represent an alternative means to provide health education to children.
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