The REThink Online Therapeutic Game: A Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children and adolescents' help-seeking behaviors are often limited by fear, uncertainty, and stigma, as well as challenges with finding the right intervention, help, and a lack of familiarity with the process. A promising direction for the development of therapeutic interventions targeted at children is embedding them into gamified interventions, known as therapeutic or serious games. The aim of this paper is to describe the protocol of the beta REThink therapeutic game and to evaluate the usability of the game in a sample of children and adolescents.

Methods

The study was delivered in schools, where 137 children and adolescents aged between 9 and 16 years old played the levels of the REThink game, followed by filling in the usability questionnaire.

Findings

SUBMITTER: Iuga IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10453373 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature