{"id":4142,"date":"2024-03-11T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nish.wales\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:13:33","slug":"case-study-using-therapy-to-evaluate-the-impact-of-a-mental-health-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nish.wales\/en\/2024\/03\/11\/case-study-using-therapy-to-evaluate-the-impact-of-a-mental-health-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Using Therapy to Evaluate the Impact of a Mental Health Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mental health issues such as anxiety and depression are a global problem of increasing concern. Unfortunately, the demand for mental health services far exceeds the available human resources able to meet these concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, serious video games have been used to promote emotional regulation in individuals with mental health issues. Although these therapeutic strategies are innovative, they are limited in their scope of treatment, often focusing on specific cognitive skills, to help remediate a specific mental health disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mikoshi has developed a psychological intervention-based video game that incorporates acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/medicine\/enterprise-and-innovation\/business-support-projects\/accelerate-healthcare-technology-centre\/\">Accelerate Healthcare Technology Centre<\/a> collaborated with Mikoshi on a feasibility research study into the efficacy of their mental health video game <em>ACTing Minds<\/em>. They produced a suitable questionnaire, an ethical application form, supported recruitment on social media, data collection and analysis of the questionnaire data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project produced data that can be analysed and developed into a research paper, validating the efficacy of the video game app as a useful psychological intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Darren Edwards, Company Director, Mikoshi:<\/strong> <em>\u201cIn terms of the feasibility outcomes, they are promising, showing that participants learned important aspects about ACT and how to incorporate these into their lives\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZod8mF4bnA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health issues such as anxiety and depression are a global problem of increasing concern. Unfortunately, the demand for mental health services far exceeds the available human resources able to meet these concerns. In recent years, serious video games have been used to promote emotional regulation in individuals with mental health issues. Although these therapeutic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190346150,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1367],"tags":[1375,1370],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study","tag-health","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfwlnl-14O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4708,"url":"https:\/\/nish.wales\/en\/2026\/03\/09\/movement-wellbeing-and-womens-health\/","url_meta":{"origin":4142,"position":0},"title":"Movement, Wellbeing and Women\u2019s Health\u00a0\u00a0","author":"meganchick1","date":"9th March 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Physical activity\u00a0has\u00a0an important role\u00a0in supporting health and wellbeing throughout\u00a0our\u00a0lives. 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