Serious games as an educational strategy to control childhood obesity: a systematic literature review1.

Objectives: to identify in the literature the efficacy of serious games to improve knowledge for and/or behavioral changes among overweight or obese children.

Method: Systematic Literature Review. The Cochrane Systematic Reviews Handbook was used.

Serious game development as a strategy for health promotion and tackling childhood obesity.

Objectives: to develop and assess a serious game on healthy eating and physical activity to promote health and tackle childhood obesity.

Method: a descriptive, applied and methodological study.For the development of the game, the following steps were taken: conceptualization, pre-production with the development of the game documentation, prototyping, production and assessment of thecomputer and health experts.