The Role of Serious Video Games in the Treatment of Disordered Eating Behaviors: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eating disorders and other forms of disordered eating cause significant complications and comorbidities in patients. However, full remission with current standard treatment remains low. Challenges to treatment include underdiagnosis and high dropout rates, as well as difficulties in addressing underlying emotion dysregulation, poor impulse control, and personality traits. Serious video games (SVGs), which have the advantages of being highly engaging and accessible, may be potential tools for delivering various forms of treatment in addressing the underlying psychopathology of disordered eating.

Objective

This review aims to provide an overview of the possible mechanisms by which SVGs may affect the clinical course of disordered eating, while evaluating the outcome

SUBMITTER: Tang WSW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9468918 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature