Awareness, Prevention, Detection, and Therapy Applications for Depression and Anxiety in Serious Games for Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression and anxiety in children and adolescents are major health problems worldwide. In recent years, serious games research has advanced in the development of tools to address these mental health conditions. However, there has not been an extensive analysis of these games, their tendencies, and capacities.

Objective

This review aims to gather the most current serious games, published from 2015 to 2020, with a new approach focusing on their applications: awareness, prevention, detection, and therapy. The purpose is also to analyze the implementation, development, and evaluation of these tools to obtain trends, strengths, and weaknesses for future research lines.

Methods

The identification of the serious games through a literature search was conducted on

SUBMITTER: Martinez K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8726021 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature