The Use of Gamification in the Self-Management of Patients With Chronic Diseases: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic disease self-management is a public health issue of worldwide concern, and gamification is an emerging strategy to improve patients' participation in chronic disease self-management. Some studies have summarized designs for the gamification of chronic disease self-management from the perspective of eHealth technology, but they have not mentioned differences in design methods, functions, and evaluation methods of gamified designs for self-management in different chronic diseases.

Objective

This scoping review aims to synthesize the characteristics of realization forms, functions, and evaluation methods in chronic disease self-management gamification to improve self-management among the chronic disease population.

Methods

We applied a methodological f

SUBMITTER: Huang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10770795 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature