Effectiveness of Serious Gaming During the Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of Patients With Complex Chronic Pain or Fatigue: Natural Quasi-Experiment.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Current evidence for the effectiveness of specialist multidisciplinary programs for burdensome chronic pain and functional somatic syndromes drives the effort to improve approaches, strategies, and delivery modes. It remains unknown to what extent and in what respect serious gaming during the regular outpatient rehabilitation can contribute to health outcomes. OBJECTIVE:The objectives of our study were to determine the effect of additional serious gaming on (1) physical and emotional functioning in general; (2) particular outcome domains; and (3) patient global impressions of change, general health, and functioning and to determine (4) the dependency of serious gaming effects on adherence. METHODS:We conducted a naturalistic quasi-experiment using embedded qualitative methods. T

SUBMITTER: Vugts MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6115601 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature