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Serious Gaming [...] for PW Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms: Mixed Methods Design of a Realist Process Evaluation (2020) Vrijhoef et al.

Discussion in 'Other psychosomatic news and research' started by Cheshire, Mar 9, 2020.

  1. Cheshire

    Cheshire Moderator Staff Member

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    Full title and authors:
    Serious Gaming During Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation for Patients With Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms: Mixed Methods Design of a Realist Process Evaluation
    Miel AP Vugts, Aglaia MEE Zedlitz, Margot CW Joosen, Hubertus JM Vrijhoef

    https://www.jmir.org/2020/3/e14766/

    Previous study from the same team on the same subject here
     
  2. alktipping

    alktipping Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    it is a distraction and the only benefit is for short periods of time you are not thinking about your symptoms at least until your symptoms get to the point that you cannot concentrate on the game or even use the gamepad . dressing this up as some kind of new knowledge is just pathetic .
     
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  3. Snow Leopard

    Snow Leopard Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I think "serious gaming" is code for games that aren't fun.
     
  4. Obermann

    Obermann Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Serious rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain and fatigue?

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  5. Invisible Woman

    Invisible Woman Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    There was always the annual local Christmas get together in the little community where I grew up. It always had a massive poker game going on with people dropping in and out.

    The players were serious but the stakes were small. The quantities of alcohol consumed meant no one was feeling any pain regardless of whether they won or lost.

    Until the next morning that is.:sick:
     
  6. wastwater

    wastwater Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Is light gambling better than serious gaming,they need to measure that
     
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  7. inox

    inox Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Searched for ‘the seriouse game LAKA’ not really expecting to find anything. But that’s actually how the developers themself describe the game.

    It’s a game developed especially as a rehabilitation tool, supposedly based on buddisth theory. I think it sounds more like cbt hidden in an interactive, self delivered format.

    Very misleading description in the abstract, I would say, as this study has nothing to do with actual gaming.

    And it’s the Dutch. Wonder who owns or inspires the Ciran rehabilitation company?

    https://paladinstudios.com/2013/03/12/laka-is-nominated-for-the-future-of-health-award/

    While not religious in nature, Laka is based on buddhist philosophy. The game teaches players about handling yourself and handling life – in particular, it aims to improve and test your skill in generosity, moral discipline, patience, energy, focus and wisdom. These are the six “paramitas” (virtues) of Mahayana buddhism.

     
  8. inox

    inox Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Googled some more - was not aware ‘seriouse game’ is an actual used expression for games with learning focus.


    «A serious game or applied game is a gamedesigned for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.[1] The "serious" adjective is generally prepended to refer to video gamesused by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, and politics.[2] Serious games are a subgenre of serious storytelling, where storytelling is applied "outside the context of entertainment, where the narration progresses as a sequence of patterns impressive in quality ... and is part of a thoughtful progress".[3]»

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game
     
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    Grigor Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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  10. Cheshire

    Cheshire Moderator Staff Member

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    Thread there.

    From the abstract:
    Is the quality of the metodology of "Serious Gaming [...] for PW Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms" in any way better than those trials they criticise?
     

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