How Effective Are Active Videogames among the Young and the Old? Adding Meta-analyses to Two Recent Systematic Reviews

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 311-318

  Van 'T Riet, Jonathan ^a   Crutzen, Rik ^b   Lu, Amy Shirong ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84992679793     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2014.0005     Document Type: Review

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