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Video Games in Health Care: Closing the Gap

Kato, Pamela M.·2010·Review of General Psychology

DOI 10.1037/a0019441

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Although a great deal of media attention has been given to the negative effects of playing video games, relatively less attention has been paid to the positive effects of engaging in this activity. Video games in health care provide ample examples of innovative ways to use existing commercial games for health improvement or surgical training. Tailor-made games help patients be more adherent to treatment regimens and train doctors how to manage patients in different clinical situations. In this review, examples in the scientific literature of commercially available and tailor-made games used for education and training with patients and medical students and doctors are summarized. There is a history of using video games with patients from the early days of gaming in the 1980s, and this has evolved into a focus on making tailor-made games for different disease groups, which have been evaluated in scientific trials more recently. Commercial video games have been of interest regarding their impact on surgical skill. More recently, some basic computer games have been developed and evaluated that train doctors in clinical skills. The studies presented in this article represent a body of work outlining positive effects of playing video games in the area of health care.

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Authors: Kato, P. M.
Affiliations: University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
Corresponding author: Kato, Pamela M.
ORCID: Kato, Pamela M.
Venue: Review of General Psychology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-06
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Pages: 113-121
ISSN: 1089-2680 (ISSN-L)
1939-1552
DOI: 10.1037/a0019441
OpenAlex: W2098691028
Cited by: 502
References: 66
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 43 · 2017: 46 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 52 · 2014: 47 · 2013: 40 · 2012: 23
FWCI: 51.27
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Review of General Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
Keywords: video games, health care, serious games, game-based training, surgical training, medical education, medication adherence, patient education, commercial video games, clinical skills training

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