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ABSTRACT: Background
Visual-perceptual defects in children can negatively affect their ability to perform activities of daily living. Conventional rehabilitation training for correcting visual-perceptual defects has limited training patterns and limited interactivity, which makes motivation difficult to sustain.Objective
We aimed to develop and evaluate an interactive digital game system for correcting visual-perceptual defects and evaluate its effectiveness.Methods
Participants were children aged 5 to 10 years with a diagnosis of visual-perceptual defect associated with a developmental disability. The children were randomized into a digital game group who received the traditional course of rehabilitation combined with an interactive digital game intervention (n=12) and a standard rehabilitation group (n=11) who only received the traditional course of rehabilitation. Each group underwent rehabilitation once a week for 4 weeks. Overall improvement in Test of Visual Perceptual Skills 3rd edition (TVPS-3) score and overall improvement in performance in the interactive digital game were evaluated. Parents and therapists were asked to complete a satisfaction questionnaire.Results
After 4 weeks, the TVPS-3 score had significantly increased (P=.002) in the digital game group (pre: mean 41.67, SD 13.88; post: 61.50, SD 21.64). In the standard rehabilitation group, the TVPS-3 score also increased, but the increase was not statistically significant (P=.58). Additionally, TVPS-3 score increases were significantly larger for the digital game group compared with those for the standard rehabilitation group (P=.005). Moreover, both parents and therapists were highly satisfied with the system. All 5 themes of satisfaction had mean scores higher than 4 in a 5-point scale questionnaire (mean 4.30, SD 0.56).Conclusions
The system has potential applications for improving visual-perceptual function in children undergoing medical rehabilitation for developmental disability.Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05016492; http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05016492.
SUBMITTER: Wu WL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9055488 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Wen-Lan WL Huang Yu-Ling YL Liang Jing-Min JM Chen Chia-Hsin CH Wang Chih-Chung CC Ho Wen-Hsien WH
JMIR serious games 20220415 2
<h4>Background</h4>Visual-perceptual defects in children can negatively affect their ability to perform activities of daily living. Conventional rehabilitation training for correcting visual-perceptual defects has limited training patterns and limited interactivity, which makes motivation difficult to sustain.<h4>Objective</h4>We aimed to develop and evaluate an interactive digital game system for correcting visual-perceptual defects and evaluate its effectiveness.<h4>Methods</h4>Participants we ...[more]