Educação em saúde e serious games: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

This work is an integrative review of literature that aims to describe scientific production about serious games applied to health education area. The term serious games has been used to identify games with a specific purpose, in other words, they extrapolates the idea of entertaining and offers other kind of experiences like those ones directed to learning and training with applications of awareness human about social problems. The use of such tools and technologies has been inserted to health education highlighting the use of serious games while pedagogic strategy that also allows entertaining. This research reveled 81 articles and after comparison with inclusion parameters it was obtained a final sample of 30 papers published between 2006 and 2015. This material was integrally read and the main information were organized in a table. A high proportion of these works indicate that interventions through serious games can improve the health behavior of communities that take part of this intervention. However there is a need of qualify the evaluative process of interventions by a rigorous attendance of comportment changes and everyday practices. By this critical analysis of literature it is evident that health education through serious games is a relevant strategy to effective sensitizes awareness and education directed to changes of behavior related with health. On other hand it can be concluded that there are deficiency on investigation about the results of these interventions through the time, so this is an object that deserve more attention.