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Medical fear is an emotional response caused by medical experience and related events. It can reduce children’s treatment compliance and affects their adaptation to diseases to some extent, making them unable to deal with the stress effectively. In this study, we introduce a brand-new idea for children’s medical guide that benefits from the combination of gamification and traditional medical navigation application to create an immersive and interesting medical experience for children. The research shows that our app has a significant effect on relieving children’s fear of the environments, devices, operations, and staffs of hospital during the routine. In addition, this app also improves the operating efficiency of children’s hospitals to a certain extent, reduce the burden on guardians, and enhance the triangular interactions between children, guardians and medical staff. It also has preventive and educational effects on the health care of children after rehabilitation.
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Zheng, X., He, X. (2020). Relieving Children’s Fear During Medical Process by Gamification Medical Navigation Application. In: Kalra, J., Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1205. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50838-8_36
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