Developing a Health Game to Prepare Preschool Children for Anesthesia: Formative Study Using a Child-Centered Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Every year, millions of children undergo medical procedures that require anesthesia. Fear and anxiety are common among young children undergoing such procedures and can interfere with the child's recovery and well-being. Relaxation, distraction, and education are methods that can be used to prepare children and help them cope with fear and anxiety, and serious games may be a suitable medium for these purposes. User-centered design emphasizes the involvement of end users during the development and testing of products, but involving young, preschool children may be challenging.

Objective

One objective of this study was to describe the development and usability of a computer-based educational health game intended for preschool children to prepare them for upcoming an

SUBMITTER: Ingadottir B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8814931 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature