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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (802) Games and Gamification for Health (777) Phobias (e.g. Agoraphobia) other than SAD (14) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (761)

Published on in Vol 11 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/42025, first published .
An Exposure-Based Video Game (Dr. Zoo) to Reduce Needle Phobia in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Development and Mixed Methods Pilot Study

An Exposure-Based Video Game (Dr. Zoo) to Reduce Needle Phobia in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Development and Mixed Methods Pilot Study

An Exposure-Based Video Game (Dr. Zoo) to Reduce Needle Phobia in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Development and Mixed Methods Pilot Study

Authors of this article:

Pat Healy1 Author Orcid Image ;   Celine Lu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jennifer S Silk3 Author Orcid Image ;   Oliver Lindhiem4 Author Orcid Image ;   Reagan Harper1, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Abhishek Viswanathan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Dmitriy Babichenko1 Author Orcid Image
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