Health-related Serious Games on the Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD: Systematic Review Protocol

Review question / Objective: The aim of this systematic review is to identify effectiveness and patients’ demand on serious games for COPD patients as well as to recognize potential research gaps in this area by synthesizing and appraising studies examining effects of serious games on COPD patients. Eligibility criteria: OutcomesThe outcomes that include health-related endpoints such as pulmonary function, exercise capacity, dyspnea, compliance, or adverse effects, will be enrolled.Further inclusion criteriaStudies must be peer-reviewed and be in English or Chinese.Exclusion criteriaStudies will be excluded for the following reasons: (1) duplicate records;, (2) studies focused on measurement; diagnostic methods, serious game theory or game development; and (3) conference abstracts or studies that cannot find out full texts.