Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment
Autor(a) principal: | |
---|---|
Data de Publicação: | 2019 |
Tipo de documento: | Dissertação |
Idioma: | eng |
Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
Texto Completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/82177 |
Resumo: | Anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental illness, affecting 264 million people worldwide. Current treatments are limited because they cause side effects and/or require long therapeutic periods. Neurofeedback (NFB) has been associated with the reduction of anxious symptomatology but typically uses unappealing therapeutic interventions. In this work a game was developed, Anxiety Destroyer, using procedures of gamification adapted to the NFB, with the goal of providing a guided, immerse and efficient treatment, to be used at home. The lean method was applied to the development process by construction-measurement-learning of value propositions. Thirty people were studied, which performed up to 8 NFB sessions for 35 minutes, totalling 185 sessions, 108 hours. Three groups of 10 individuals were created, one group with frontal alpha asymmetry (Alpha Asymmetry (ALAY)) protocol (F4-F3), another with asymmetry between AF4 and AF3 channels (AF) for hairless skin usage and another control group, with increased alpha in F4 and F3 (F+). The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was applied to assess anxiety. The Game Experience Questionnaire (GEQ) was used to evaluate game experience in different versions, which were adapted to the needs of the user. The ALAY group significantly increased the asymmetry (p <0.05) (reduction of the anxiety biomarker), with a corresponding significant reduction (p <0.01) in the anxiety reported by BAI after NFB training. The AF group showed a decrease in the frontal alpha asymmetry, and the F+ a slight increase, respectively confirmed by the increase and decrease of the BAI. The GEQ did not show better gaming experience throughout sessions. An increase of the sample size is required to confirm these results, inclusively since some individuals in the AF and F+ groups abandoned treatment because of no perceived effects. However, this study suggests the effectiveness of the gamified application in the treatment of anxiety. |
id |
RCAP_f5b457d1f6065f601468a5e13c260e4b |
---|---|
oai_identifier_str |
oai:run.unl.pt:10362/82177 |
network_acronym_str |
RCAP |
network_name_str |
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
repository_id_str |
7160 |
spelling |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatmentNeurofeedbackAnxietyGamificationElectroencephalographyLeanDomínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e TecnologiasAnxiety disorder is one of the most common mental illness, affecting 264 million people worldwide. Current treatments are limited because they cause side effects and/or require long therapeutic periods. Neurofeedback (NFB) has been associated with the reduction of anxious symptomatology but typically uses unappealing therapeutic interventions. In this work a game was developed, Anxiety Destroyer, using procedures of gamification adapted to the NFB, with the goal of providing a guided, immerse and efficient treatment, to be used at home. The lean method was applied to the development process by construction-measurement-learning of value propositions. Thirty people were studied, which performed up to 8 NFB sessions for 35 minutes, totalling 185 sessions, 108 hours. Three groups of 10 individuals were created, one group with frontal alpha asymmetry (Alpha Asymmetry (ALAY)) protocol (F4-F3), another with asymmetry between AF4 and AF3 channels (AF) for hairless skin usage and another control group, with increased alpha in F4 and F3 (F+). The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was applied to assess anxiety. The Game Experience Questionnaire (GEQ) was used to evaluate game experience in different versions, which were adapted to the needs of the user. The ALAY group significantly increased the asymmetry (p <0.05) (reduction of the anxiety biomarker), with a corresponding significant reduction (p <0.01) in the anxiety reported by BAI after NFB training. The AF group showed a decrease in the frontal alpha asymmetry, and the F+ a slight increase, respectively confirmed by the increase and decrease of the BAI. The GEQ did not show better gaming experience throughout sessions. An increase of the sample size is required to confirm these results, inclusively since some individuals in the AF and F+ groups abandoned treatment because of no perceived effects. However, this study suggests the effectiveness of the gamified application in the treatment of anxiety.Ferreira, HugoPereira, CarlaRUNSilva, Pedro Folque de Gouveia Pestana da2019-09-24T14:29:06Z2019-0120192019-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/82177enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:36:33Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/82177Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:36:10.134887Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
title |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
spellingShingle |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment Silva, Pedro Folque de Gouveia Pestana da Neurofeedback Anxiety Gamification Electroencephalography Lean Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias |
title_short |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
title_full |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
title_fullStr |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
title_full_unstemmed |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
title_sort |
Development and gamification of a neurofeedback application to support anxiety treatment |
author |
Silva, Pedro Folque de Gouveia Pestana da |
author_facet |
Silva, Pedro Folque de Gouveia Pestana da |
author_role |
author |
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv |
Ferreira, Hugo Pereira, Carla RUN |
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv |
Silva, Pedro Folque de Gouveia Pestana da |
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv |
Neurofeedback Anxiety Gamification Electroencephalography Lean Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias |
topic |
Neurofeedback Anxiety Gamification Electroencephalography Lean Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias |
description |
Anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental illness, affecting 264 million people worldwide. Current treatments are limited because they cause side effects and/or require long therapeutic periods. Neurofeedback (NFB) has been associated with the reduction of anxious symptomatology but typically uses unappealing therapeutic interventions. In this work a game was developed, Anxiety Destroyer, using procedures of gamification adapted to the NFB, with the goal of providing a guided, immerse and efficient treatment, to be used at home. The lean method was applied to the development process by construction-measurement-learning of value propositions. Thirty people were studied, which performed up to 8 NFB sessions for 35 minutes, totalling 185 sessions, 108 hours. Three groups of 10 individuals were created, one group with frontal alpha asymmetry (Alpha Asymmetry (ALAY)) protocol (F4-F3), another with asymmetry between AF4 and AF3 channels (AF) for hairless skin usage and another control group, with increased alpha in F4 and F3 (F+). The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was applied to assess anxiety. The Game Experience Questionnaire (GEQ) was used to evaluate game experience in different versions, which were adapted to the needs of the user. The ALAY group significantly increased the asymmetry (p <0.05) (reduction of the anxiety biomarker), with a corresponding significant reduction (p <0.01) in the anxiety reported by BAI after NFB training. The AF group showed a decrease in the frontal alpha asymmetry, and the F+ a slight increase, respectively confirmed by the increase and decrease of the BAI. The GEQ did not show better gaming experience throughout sessions. An increase of the sample size is required to confirm these results, inclusively since some individuals in the AF and F+ groups abandoned treatment because of no perceived effects. However, this study suggests the effectiveness of the gamified application in the treatment of anxiety. |
publishDate |
2019 |
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv |
2019-09-24T14:29:06Z 2019-01 2019 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z |
dc.type.status.fl_str_mv |
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
dc.type.driver.fl_str_mv |
info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
format |
masterThesis |
status_str |
publishedVersion |
dc.identifier.uri.fl_str_mv |
http://hdl.handle.net/10362/82177 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10362/82177 |
dc.language.iso.fl_str_mv |
eng |
language |
eng |
dc.rights.driver.fl_str_mv |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
eu_rights_str_mv |
openAccess |
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv |
application/pdf |
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv |
reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP |
instname_str |
Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informação |
instacron_str |
RCAAP |
institution |
RCAAP |
reponame_str |
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
collection |
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
repository.name.fl_str_mv |
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informação |
repository.mail.fl_str_mv |
|
_version_ |
1799137981199548416 |