Be Happy and Stay Healthy With Playing Games

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During COVID-19 Pandemic, in March 2020 Indonesia implemented and issued a policy to enact it (PSSB). This PSSB requires every Indonesian citizen to keep a distance or better known as physical distancing and all activities are carried out at home, even work and study from home. Which applies until now where we are familiar with (New Normal). New normal is a change in behavior to continue to carry out normal activities but by adding a health protocol to prevent COVID-19 transmission.

Because the application of PSSB and New Normal makes many of the Indonesian people feel bored and feel uneasy because they are accustomed to doing activities outside the home, in addition to leaving the house they are also afraid of being infected. Therefore WHO through his director-general suggested playing games in the middle of the Pandemic COVID-19, previously WHO had mentioned that playing games can bring adverse effects because it can cause addiction and mental damage, but after researching the Universities of Rochester and Washington, playing games also bring good impact. Through the game, we can be more motivated to stay at home, reduce the sense of boredom, and can break the chain of spread of COVID -19.

Results of research from the Universities of Rochester and Washington:

Based on research conducted by the University of Rochester three visual capacities can be improved by playing action games. There are 3 things, the first is visual attention, the ability to receive greater information. Second is the spatial distribution, the ability to analyze the surroundings. Last is temporal resolution, the ability to remember the same object

Based on research conducted by the University of Washington. There are several things we can get from research related to online games made by the University of Washington. They can cooperative, and creative problem-solving techniques used by gamers, besides that through online games players can get new friends.

Some things that we can get through playing games in terms of health:

The first thing that we can get from playing games is improving memory. In a study released in The Journal of Neuroscience. People who play 3D games such as Mario Bros, if they play the game for 3 weeks regularly, they will increase their ability to remember.

The second thing that we can get from playing games is to relieve pain through VR (Virtual Reality) with playing VR games, they can be more focus to divert the pain and the anxiety from pain.

Next, it relieves trauma symptoms based on hospital research in Oxford, England. People can gradually forget the trauma up to 62%, after they play games tetris for 20 minutes.

Last but not least, that we can get from playing games is improving intelligence and brain health based on PLOS ONE research. People who play games for 1 hour every day are smarter than people who don’t play games and based on the journal Molecular Psychiatry. People who play games for 30 minutes a day showed some improvement in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex, and cerebellum, these results were obtained based on an MRI test.

Did you know that with the COVID -19 pandemic makes a lot of paid games for free and in certain game seller platforms also provide free games every week for download

To sum up, playing games does not only bring bad effects but also good effects, therefore we have to keep ourselves from getting tired and bored with playing games. Playing games with friends, connecting and motivating each other allows us to stay at home and break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.

References

https://www.viva.co.id/vstory/kesehatan-vstory/1223878-games-manfaat-dan-peranan-penting-bagi-kesehatan-mental
https://www.sehatq.com/artikel/berbagai-manfaat-bermain-game-untuk-cegah-virus-corona