Games for health & mHealth apps for police & blue light personnel: A research review. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Marston, Hannah R.; Hadley, Robin; Pike, Graham; Hesketh, Ian
• Is Part Of: Police journal. Volume 94:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 372
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: Health and well-being -- resilience -- first-line responders -- PTSD; Police -- Periodicals; Police -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 363.205
• DOI: 10.1177/0032258X20937327
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0032-258X

Abstract

Previous research has reported adverse health outcomes for emergency services personnel (ESP), outcomes that research more broadly has shown can be improved using a gamification and mobile health (mhealth) apps approach. We conducted a review of research on gamification and mhealth apps for ESP that had been published in the last 19 years using 6 major research databases. The results demonstrated that virtually no relevant research has been published, suggesting a significant gap in the evidence base of an approach that could potentially have significant benefits for the health of ESP.