Views of young people in rural australia on sparx, a fantasy world developed for new zealand youth with depression

JMIR Serious Games

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cheek, Colleen ^a   Bridgman, Heather ^a   Fleming, Theresa ^b   Cummings, Elizabeth ^a   Ellis, Leonie ^a   Lucassen, Mathijs F G ^b   Shepherd, Matthew ^b   Skinner, Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer games; Mental health; Rural health, computerized CBT; Stigma; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099682538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/games.3183     Document Type: Article

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