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. 2016 Jul 18;18(7):e196. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5935

Table 3.

Change in attitudes toward video games across methodological approaches, 1980–2013, as reflected in the change in proportion of video game-related articles.

Type of study Total no. of articles Change in attitude (%) P value
Negative attitude Neutral attitude Positive attitude
Observational 1081 +16.0% +1.1% –16.9% <.001a
Interventional 686 –25.8% –0.9% +26.8% <.001a
Aggregated 160 +2.9% –3.1% +0.3% >.1

aSignificance remains after Bonferroni correction.