News

Children’s mental health and wellness in focus

Explore the forefront of children's mental health technology with Triumf Health's blog, your premier destination for innovative mental health solutions for young minds. Dive into expert insights and practical tips on enhancing children's wellbeing through our award-winning game, Triumfland Saga. This game is designed not just to entertain but to empower and educate, making it a leading kids' wellbeing app. Our blog covers essential topics such as fostering resilience, promoting emotional balance, and managing stress effectively in children. Stay informed about the latest advancements in mental health games and how Triumfland Saga continues to revolutionize approaches to children's mental health. Join our community and be part of the transformative journey towards a brighter, healthier future for our children.

Industry News, Research Findings Kaari Kink Industry News, Research Findings Kaari Kink

What do evidence based digital health technologies really mean?

In our previous blog posts, we have emphasised the importance of validating and evaluating digital health technologies (DHT) to ensure their safety and effectiveness. But what do we mean by “evidence-based” and what standards as well as regulations exist in the health care industry that help demonstrate the value but also increase the adoption of DHT? And what do we in Triumf do to ensure our health app for children is the highest quality possible?

Read More
Research Findings, Child Health Kaari Kink Research Findings, Child Health Kaari Kink

Treating diabetes with exercise - what does the evidence say?

Diabetic patients spend up to 40% of the day with excessively high blood sugar levels, which can damage blood vessels and lead to long-term health consequences (Van Dijk et al., 2013). Medication to maintain diabetes is effective to a certain degree, however, studies show that patients still spend up to seven hours per day with abnormally high glucose levels even when drugs are administered (Van Dijk et al., 2013). Clearly, further interventions are needed to minimise the negative effects of diabetes.

Read More

Stakeholder engagement, what does this mean to Triumf

In order to help chronically ill children, we need to focus on many aspects. First and most importantly - their mental health - how they are coping, what are their strengths and difficulties. How we can support their strengths and help with their difficulties. But if they already have the disease then we need to monitor how their treatment is followed, we need to give information on their condition, their health and wellbeing, we need to support their general health behaviors so they could live healthier lives and at the same time empower and give a sense of success. These components that are necessary to induce behavioral change work only when these are delivered in a way that kids love. And don’t they enjoy playing games? In our mobile health game kids need to save the Triumfland city from the Disease Monster but how did we come up with that? How did we know about the needs of the users?

Read More

Play is the way to healthier life

Digital health interventions such as the Triumf game have great potential as health improving scalable tools by contributing to the effectiveness, accessibility and personalisation of healthcare delivery. However, digital health interventions (as any other intervention) need to be evaluated using proper research methodology in order to prove effectiveness or at least safety.

Read More
Team Blog, Research Findings Dr. Kadri Haljas Team Blog, Research Findings Dr. Kadri Haljas

Happy Holidays from Triumf team!

Can you imagine that it’s already the third Christmas we are celebrating as team Triumf? This has surely been an eventful year for us thus far. Here we would like to send the warmest seasonal greetings to our supporters and write about our achievements this year. Thank you, team members and everyone else, who are playing a role in this journey!

Read More
Research Findings, Child Health Kaari Kink Research Findings, Child Health Kaari Kink

The power of physical activity

The importance of physical activity and harmful effects of inactivity are becoming more and more evident. Organisations are investing more resources to tackle the rising trend of inactivity and the burden it places on healthcare. Having this in mind, in this post we look into the current research of physical activity and childhood cancer patients. Is it actually feasible and beneficial? If so, what should be the next steps?

Read More
Research Findings Dr. Kadri Haljas Research Findings Dr. Kadri Haljas

Getting certified as serious games professionals

This summer two Finnish universities Kajaani University of Applied Sciences and Oulu University of Applied Sciences teamed up and created online studies on serious gaming and gamification. This awesome project has currently resulted in three online courses, all of those were available for everyone and for free this summer 2017. And we took them all!

Read More