GRADE Evidence Profile for Meta-Analysis on Walking and Creativity

A GRADE evidence profile summarizing a meta-analysis of 23 studies on the effect of walking on creative thinking. The analysis includes data from 1,036 participants, primarily post-secondary students, and reports effect sizes for divergent and convergent thinking. The dataset was created by Alex Thabane and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing the quality and certainty of evidence for walking's impact on divergent thinking based on the GRADE framework.
• Replicating or extending the meta-analysis on walking and creativity using the reported effect sizes and study details.
• Comparing effect sizes between randomized and non-randomized experimental studies on creative thinking.
• Evaluating the participant demographics and study designs used in research on walking and creativity.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a systematic review of 23 studies from 4 major databases.
• Includes meta-analysis results for 1,036 participants, providing a quantified summary of evidence.
• Uses a standardized GRADE framework to assess evidence certainty.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), indicating limited scope and likely summary-level data.

Provenance

Source

Meta-analysis of studies from PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Scopus, and ProQuest databases.

Collection Method

Systematic search and meta-analysis of Cohen's d effect sizes.

Time Range

Studies from database inception to January 8, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:40:32; freshness should be verified.