Serious Gaming During Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation for Patients With Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms: Mixed Methods Design of a Realist Process Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Serious gaming could support patients in learning to cope with chronic pain or functional somatic syndromes and reduce symptom burdens. OBJECTIVE:To realize this potential, insight is needed into how, why, for whom, and when it works in actual treatment circumstances. METHODS:Following a realist approach, process evaluations were performed before, during, and after a two-armed, natural quasi-experiment (n=275). A group of patients with interfering chronic pain or fatigue symptoms received a short additional blended mindfulness-based serious gaming intervention during a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program. A control group only received the regular rehabilitation program. During two sessions before and one session after the experiment, expectations about serious gaming proces

SUBMITTER: Vugts MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7091046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature