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Special Issue on Video Games for Mental Health (8) Games and Gamification for Health (650)

Published on in Vol 6, No 5 (2019): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12418, first published .
Gaming With Stigma: Analysis of Messages About Mental Illnesses in Video Games

Gaming With Stigma: Analysis of Messages About Mental Illnesses in Video Games

Gaming With Stigma: Analysis of Messages About Mental Illnesses in Video Games

Authors of this article:

Manuela Ferrari1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sarah V McIlwaine1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Gerald Jordan3 Author Orcid Image ;   Jai L Shah1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Shalini Lal1, 4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Srividya N Iyer1, 2 Author Orcid Image
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