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Multi-player Online Video Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation

NCT01518010 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2012-01-25

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Summary

This research project aims to find out if a multiplayer online video game can provide therapeutic benefit for people who have survived a brain injury.

Video games provide therapeutic benefits in many contexts (Griffiths, 2005). Players of online multiplayer games behave altruistically and form friendships (Wang and Wang, 2008). These positive emotional effects may enhance cognitive rehabilitation, because the cognitive and emotional sides of rehabilitation are connected (Mateer, 2005).

The hypothesis is thus: that playing multiplayer online games can be a useful form of cognitive rehabilitation for brain-injured people.

This research will identify whether or not multi-player online video games may be used as a complementary therapeutic tool. A further aim is to develop guidelines which would help others considering the use of video games for cognitive rehabilitation.

Conditions

  • Acquired Brain Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Play game

Participants engage in non-game activity (establish baseline) 7 \* 1 hr weekly; play single-player game 7 \* 1 hr weekly; play multi-player game 7 \* 1 hr weekly.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Portsmouth

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jason E Colman · University of Portsmouth

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2014-01-31

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