Uso de jogos no controle de ansiedade em crianças e adolescentes: uma revisão integrativa

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Andressa Gabrielle Carvalho da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Yanne Feitoza de
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/18302
• topic: Ansiedade; Jogos e brinquedos; Saúde da criança; Saúde do adolescente; Anxiety; Games and toys; Child health; Adolescent health; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM PEDIATRICA

Anxiety has been on the rise in children and adolescents in recent years, which makes it an axis of relevance in mental health. Such a disorder needs to be addressed in a way that facilitates treatment, and ways of coping through an interactive and playful process, as is the case with therapeutic games for anxiety control. The objective of this work is to present an overview of the scientific production on the use of games to control anxiety in children and adolescents. This is an integrative literature review through the following databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Medical Literature and Retrivial System onLine (MEDLINE/PubMed®), Nursing Database (BDENF) and SCOPUS (Elsevier); using the descriptors: ``children ́ ́, ``adolescents ́ ́, ``mental health ́ ́, ``games ́ ́ and ``toys ́ ́. The identified records were screened to meet the inclusion criteria: full articles available online, containing games that aim to control anxiety in children or adolescents. With this, 12 articles were identified that tested digital computer games, smartphone, tablet and virtual reality devices in children and adolescents, from 2015 to 2022. The games were organized into the following categories: RPG - Roling Playing Game, Adventure, Strategy, Simulation, Emulation and Puzzle/Puzzles. Finally, after analyzing the cataloged articles, it was found that the development of these resources is a promising step towards the creation of mental health education resources applied in a playful and attractive way to children and adolescents, although there has been an egalitarian decrease in anxiety in the intervention and control groups of the analyzed RCTs, which reveals the need for further studies to assess the specific effects of games. Non-digital games such as board or card games were not identified, which highlights the lack of research involving such modalities in the control of anxiety. Such considerations reflect an international reality, since none of the studies analyzed were applied in Brazil. It is soon observed that games for anxiety control involving children and adolescents need to be developed and applied in the country.