Game Changer: Is Palliative Care Ready for Games?

Azizoddin, Desiree R.; Thomas, Teresa Hagan

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“…We cannot forget that empathy is further fostered, as seen in the responses from our study, when they literally embody the character; when players sit in the patient’s wheelchair or get as close as possible to their experience. Of course, it is not easy to resort to this kind of dynamic, which allows moving from storytelling to storydoing through playing the story, but it is very effective [ 31 – 33 ]. To achieve this, it is necessary to work on scriptwriting (the way to create storytelling).…”

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Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness

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Introduction The message of palliative care can be promoted using creative thinking and gamification. It can be an innovative strategy to promote changes in behaviour, promote thinking, and work on skills such as empathy. Aim Design, test and evaluate a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness among young university students from non-health background. Methods Participatory action research study with mixed methods, Design Thinking and using the Public Engagement strategy. Forty-three undergraduate students participated in a Palliative Care Stay Room and completed the Test of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (TECA) before and after the game. At the end of the game, a ten-minute debriefing was held with the participants, which was concluded with an open conversation. The content analysis was done independently and the sum of the scores of each dimension was compared before and after the activity. Findings The Stay Room improved the participants’ knowledge and new perspectives about palliative care. Before the game, their views focused on the end of life and after the game on their values, highlighting the dedication of the healthcare professionals who do not treat death but the life until death. After de game, participants (N = 43: female = 23; male = 20; x̄ 19.6 years old) presented higher values in perspective adoption (intellectual ability to put oneself in the other’s place) p = 0.046 and in emotional understanding (ability to recognize emotional states) p = 0.018, and had high scores on empathic joy (p = 0.08). Conclusion Gamification can be used in teaching and transmitting positive attitudes. Palliative Care and can help young university students to think positively about care issues.

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“…Serious gamesgames designed to provide a learning experience -can be a strategic resource for palliative care education and awareness. They are described in the literature as a means to study and improve the health of populations in different areas, such as mental health (14,22). Since the 1990s, these resources have been used in Palliative Care in education, to work on aspects of interdisciplinary communication and transmission of bad news, as well as to address the issue of advance directives (14).…”

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Introduction: The message of palliative care can be promoted using creative thinking and gamification. It can be an innovative strategy to promote changes in behaviour, promote thinking, and work on skills such as empathy. Aim: Design, test and evaluate a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness. Methods: Participatory action research study with mixed methods, Design Thinking and using the Public Engagement strategy. Forty-three undergraduate students participated in a Palliative CareStay Room and completed the Test of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (TECA) before and after the game. At the end of the game, a ten-minute debriefing was held with the participants and an open-ended questionnaire was handed out. The content analysis was done independently and the sum of the scores of each dimension was compared before and after the activity. Findings: Older participants (N=43: female=23; male=20; x̄ 19.6 years old) presented higher values in perspective adoption (intellectual ability to put oneself in the other’s place) p=.046 and in emotional understanding (ability to recognize emotional states) p=.018, after participating in the game. Females had the highest scores on empathic joy (p=.08). Students stated that the game gave them knowledge and new perspectives. Conclusion: Gamification can be used in teaching and transmitting positive attitudes in Palliative Care and can help young university students to think positively about care issues.

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“…Finally, with 40%–90% of patients with advanced cancer experiencing pain, improved access to behavioral pain treatment is needed. As one important step, Dr. Desiree Azizoddin and US colleagues have developed gamified CBT for the palliative context ( 86 ) and a CBT-based mobile health intervention (app) for patients with cancer ( 71 ). The initial results of the CBT app suggest favorable patient appraisal, and two efficacy trials are currently underway ( 87 , 88 ).…”

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Innovative treatment formats, technologies, and clinician trainings that improve access to behavioral pain treatment for youth and adults

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Chronic pain is prevalent across the life span and associated with significant individual and societal costs. Behavioral interventions are recommended as the gold-standard, evidence-based interventions for chronic pain, but barriers, such as lack of pain-trained clinicians, poor insurance coverage, and high treatment burden, limit patients’ ability to access evidenced-based pain education and treatment resources. Recent advances in technology offer new opportunities to leverage innovative digital formats to overcome these barriers and dramatically increase access to high-quality, evidenced-based pain treatments for youth and adults. This scoping review highlights new advances. First, we describe system-level barriers to the broad dissemination of behavioral pain treatment. Next, we review several promising new pediatric and adult pain education and treatment technology innovations to improve access and scalability of evidence-based behavioral pain treatments. Current challenges and future research and clinical recommendations are offered.

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Game Changer: Is Palliative Care Ready for Games?

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Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness

Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness

Palliative Care Stay Room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness.

Innovative treatment formats, technologies, and clinician trainings that improve access to behavioral pain treatment for youth and adults

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