Article Excerpt: A codesigned digital behavioral health game for adolescents with depressive and anxiety symptoms is associated with a modest, sustained reduction in depressive symptoms, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open.
Caroline M. Barry, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the play2PREVENT Lab at the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, and colleagues examined the association of a digital behavioral health game for adolescents (aged 16 to 19 years) with depressive and anxiety symptoms during 12 months of follow-up in a prespecified secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Participants were randomly assigned to a digital game of about 300 minutes delivered during six weeks or an attention-matched active control (269 and 263 teens, respectively). Depressive and anxiety symptoms were examined as prespecified outcomes using the eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) and seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) assessment tool, respectively.
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