Game on? smoking cessation through the gamification of mhealth: A longitudinal qualitative study

JMIR Serious Games

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  El Hilly, Abdulrahman Abdulla ^a   Iqbal, Sheeraz Syed ^a   Ahmed, Maroof ^a   Sherwani, Yusuf ^a   Muntasir, Mohammed ^a   Siddiqui, Sarim ^a   Al Fagih, Zaid ^a   Usmani, Omar ^b   Eisingerich, Andreas B ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral support; Gamification; Health behavior; Health policy; Mhealth; Mobile health; Public health; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041020691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/games.5678     Document Type: Article

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