Resumo

Heroin addiction has a negative impact on cognitive functions, and recovering addicts suffer from cognitive impairment. Traditional cognitive rehabilitation approaches suffer from limited motivational appeal and are relatively cumbersome to carry out. We report a study testing on an alternative mHealth approach using tablets and serious games to stimulate cognitive functions. In order to test the efficacy of these methods, a small scale cognitive training program was run with a sample of male heroin addicts who were undergoing a rehabilitation program for heroin addiction as inpatients at a local NGO. The results were promising and highlight the need for randomized control trials to clearly ascertain the efficacy of this alternative approach to cognitive rehabilitation programs.

Idioma originalInglês
Título da publicação do anfitriãoProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2015
EditoresDaniyal M. Alghazzawi, Habib M. Fardoun, Victor M. Ruiz Penichet, Pedro Gamito
EditoraAssociation for Computing Machinery
Páginas5-9
Número de páginas5
ISBN (eletrónico)9781450338981
DOIs
Estado da publicaçãoPublicadas - 1 out. 2015
Evento3rd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2015 - Lisbon
Duração: 1 out. 20152 out. 2015

Série de publicação

NomeACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume01-02-October-2015

Conferência

Conferência3rd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2015
País/TerritórioPortugal
CidadeLisbon
Período1/10/152/10/15

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