Exergaming for Quality of Life in Persons Living with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis

To evaluate the evidence of effectiveness of exergame‐based rehabilitative interventions on health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) in persons with chronic diseases.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation

• Publication date

  2020-06-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/pmrj.12444PMID 32592238
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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