Author(s): Noroozi M; St John A; Masino C; Laplante S; Hunter J; Brudno M; Madani A; Kersten-Oertel M;

Background: Major bile duct injuries during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), often stemming from errors in surgical judgment and visual misperception of critical anatomy, significantly impact morbidity, mortality, disability, and health care costs. Objective: To enhance safe LC learning, we de ...

Article GUID: 39052314

Author(s): St John A; Khalid MU; Masino C; Noroozi M; Alseidi A; Hashimoto DA; Altieri M; Serrot F; Kersten-Oertal M; Madani A;

Background: Gaming can serve as an educational tool to allow trainees to practice surgical decision-making in a low-stakes environment. LapBot is a novel free interactive mobile game application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide players with feedback on safe dissection during lapa ...

Article GUID: 39009730

Author(s): Fiedler I; Ante L; Meduna MV; Steinmetz F; Kairouz S; Costes JM;

Gambling usually involves wagering real money but can also be conducted with virtual money, chips, or coins. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as simulated gambling, social gambling, or play money gambling. This study explores correlations and transitions between simulated gambling and real money gambling with an emphasis on gambling-related harms ...

Article GUID: 36757603

Author(s): Silva-Lavigne N; Valderrama A; Pelaez S; Bransi M; Balli F; Gervais Y; Gaudy T; Tse SM;

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic pediatric disease. Despite existing tools to manage asthma, 40%-55% of children with asthma experience uncontrolled asthma. Serious games (SGs) represent a novel approach in promoting asthma education and self-management for children. Objective: In this qualitative pilot study with an embedded quantitative de ...

Article GUID: 35389354

Author(s): Najmeh Khalili-Mahani

The value of understanding patients' illness experience and social contexts for advancing medicine and clinical care is widely acknowledged. However, methodologies for rigorous and inclusive data gathering and integrative analysis of biomedical, cultural, and social factors are limited. In this paper, we propose a digital strategy for large-scale qual ...

Article GUID: 34975566

Author(s): Tsui TYL; DeFrance K; Khalid-Khan S; Granic I; Hollenstein T;

i>Objective: Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent form of psychopathology among youth. Because demand for treatment far exceeds availability, there is a need for alternative approaches that are accessible, engaging, and incorporate practice to reach as many youth as possible. MindLight is a novel videogame intervention that combines evidence-based anx ...

Article GUID: 34403591

Author(s): Dussault F; Brunelle N; Dufour M; Kairouz S;

This article examines the effect of gambling location on the frequency, expenditure, and time spent on cash game poker in relation to individual characteristics of gamblers. Data were drawn from a 2012 Québec epidemiological gambling survey. The quantitative analysis used multilevel methods to model the dual-level hierarchical design of gambling location ...

Article GUID: 33538954

Author(s): Ferrari M, McIlwaine SV, Reynolds JA, Archie S, Boydell K, Lal S, Shah JL, Henderson J, Alvarez-Jimenez M, Andersson N, Boruff J, Nielsen RKL, Iyer SN

JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Jun 24;9(6):e13834 Authors: Ferrari M, McIlwaine SV, Reynolds JA, Archie S, Boydell K, Lal S, Shah JL, Henderson J, Alvarez-Jimenez M, Andersson N, Boruff J, Nielsen RKL, Iyer SN

Article GUID: 32579117

Author(s): Khalili-Mahani N, Assadi A, Li K, Mirgholami M, Rivard ME, Benali H, Sawchuk K, De Schutter B

JMIR Ment Health. 2020 Mar 26;7(3):e12388 Authors: Khalili-Mahani N, Assadi A, Li K, Mirgholami M, Rivard ME, Benali H, Sawchuk K, De Schutter B

Article GUID: 32213474

Author(s): O' Loughlin EK; Dutczak H; Kakinami L; Consalvo M; McGrath JJ; Barnett TA;

Because of rapid evolution in exergaming technology and content, the literature on the benefits of exergaming needs ongoing review. Updated syntheses incorporating high-quality critical assessments of included articles can provide cutting-edge evidence to drive research and practice. The objectives were to summarize evidence from systematic reviews and me ...

Article GUID: 32017864

Author(s): O'Loughlin EK, Barnett TA, McGrath JJ, Consalvo M, Kakinami L

JMIR Serious Games. 2019 Jul 31;7(2):e13335 Authors: O'Loughlin EK, Barnett TA, McGrath JJ, Consalvo M, Kakinami L

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