Assessing instrumental activities of daily living (iADL) with a game-based assessment for individuals with schizophrenia

Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review

“…Four of these, administered and validated a new "VR functional capacity assessment tool" (VRFCAT) that confronts participants to various routine tasks of daily living. Important outcomes were that patients with a SSD performed significantly worse in most of the administered subtasks (Ruse et al, 2014;Ventura et al, 2020), that the VRFCAT correlated with other functional performance tests (Lindenmayer et al, 2020;Ruse et al, 2014;Ventura et al, 2020) and that it showed a similar factor structure in SSD patients than HC (Harvey et al, 2020). Two further VR-based assessment tools were reported for the detection of prospective memory problems (Man et al, 2018) and a general cognitive assessment (Miskowiak et al, 2021), both of which correlated with existing neuropsychological tests.…”

A framework to support interoperable Game‐based Assessments as a Service (GBAaaS): Design, development, and use cases

“…Furthermore, we found examples of metrics developed in non‐educational contexts. Authors in Reference 34 developed a GBA using multi‐level functional tasks to assess instrumental activities of daily living in a sample of inpatients with chronic schizophrenia, measuring completion times and errors in each task. Furthermore, Jackson et al 35 assessed a sample of 67 Reserve Officers' Training Corps (military sample) using the commercial game “Crysis 2,” 36 which simulates key features involved in combat situations.…”

Measuring functional outcomes in schizophrenia in an increasingly digital world

“…A high-profile example of recent developments in this area includes the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT), a computer-based test that simulates instrumental activities of daily living in a realistic and interactive virtual environment ( Lindenmayer et al, 2020 ). Specifically developed for clinical trial use ( Keefe et al, 2016 ), the VRFCAT is now implemented to detect functionally meaningful improvements in clinical trials ( Nahum et al, 2020 ) and has been deployed in four clinical trials that started within the last year.…”