Educational games for self-care of people with intestinal ostomies: a scoping review.
Camila Vicente, Lúcia Nazareth Amante, Lorena Barros da Silveira and 2 others
PMID 41417332WHAT IT FOUND
Only two studies were found on games for self-care after intestinal ostomy: a small card game with seven adults and an ongoing children's app trial without final results.
This shows a gap, not evidence that games improve care.
Key findings
01The review identified two included studies: an adult card game and a children's app with games.
02The adult card game study had seven participants and reported that after playing, the patient could understand what a stoma entails.
03The children's app study was an ongoing randomized trial with no final published results and no reported number of participants.
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What it does not show
Only two studies were included, so the review cannot provide a broad evidence base for games in ostomy self-care. One included study was descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative with seven participants, so it describes experience rather than testing effectiveness. The second included study had no final published results and no reported number of participants, so it cannot contribute outcome data. The review included some articles about apps or technological tools that did not clearly state they were games, after a consensus decision.
Declared interests
The study was funded by a master's degree scholarship from FAPESC public call notice no. 48/2021. The supplied text does not state conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that games improve ostomy self-care or quality of life. The review found only two studies, one small descriptive study with seven participants and one ongoing trial without final published results.