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SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022

Game-based digital therapeutics for children and adolescents: Their therapeutic effects on mental health problems, the sustainability of the therapeutic effects and the transfer of cognitive functions.

Eunhye Choi, Eun-Ha Yoon, Min-Hyeon Park

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Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eunhye ChoiDepartment of Psychiatry, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Eun-Ha YoonDepartment of Psychiatry, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Min-Hyeon ParkDepartment of Psychiatry, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Catholic University of Korea · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence (e. g., attention deficits, problems in emotional understanding and subclinical levels of anxiety) are reported to develop further in adulthood and/or to increase the risk of developing mental health disorders in adulthood. Although it is important to provide treatment or prevention interventions for children and adolescents in order to reduce the risk of the further development of mental health problems, the pharmacological and behavioral treatments for this age group have limitations (e.g., limited access, unsustainable treatment effects and the lack of engagement in intervention). In order to overcome the limitations of conventional treatments, the use of digital technology, especially video games for this age group, is suggested. In order to be accepted as clinical interventions, objective evidence for the therapeutic effects of digital therapeutic that used video games to treat or prevent targeted mental health problems are required. Thus, this review aims to explore whether game-based digital therapeutics (DTx) for children and adolescents showed therapeutic effects on targeted mental health problems. As game-based DTx are suggested to show sustained therapeutic effects and the transfer of cognitive functions, it also reviews the maintenance of the therapeutic effects of DTx and the extent of the transfer of cognitive functions. Game-based DTx that are developed to treat or prevent mental health problems (e.g., attention deficit, depression) in children and adolescents are found to show therapeutic effects on targeted mental health problems despite the limitations (e.g., small sample size, limited investigation of the sustainability). This review would contribute to the understanding of whether there is objective evidence of the therapeutic effects of digital therapeutics using video games that deliver treatment or prevention interventions for mental health problems in children and adolescents.

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children and adolescentsdigital therapeuticsmental health problemsustainabilitytherapeutic effectstransfervideo games

Identifiers

PMID36523871
PMCPMC9744939
OpenAlexW4310207258

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