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SUBMITTER: DeSmet A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4403732 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DeSmet Ann A Van Ryckeghem Dimitri D Compernolle Sofie S Baranowski Tom T Thompson Debbe D Crombez Geert G Poels Karolien K Van Lippevelde Wendy W Bastiaensens Sara S Van Cleemput Katrien K Vandebosch Heidi H De Bourdeaudhuij Ilse I
Preventive medicine 20140827
Several systematic reviews have described health-promoting effects of serious games but so far no meta-analysis has been reported. This paper presents a meta-analysis of 54 serious digital game studies for healthy lifestyle promotion, in which we investigated the overall effectiveness of serious digital games on healthy lifestyle promotion outcomes and the role of theoretically and clinically important moderators. Findings showed that serious games have small positive effects on healthy lifestyl ...[more]