Table 2_Effectiveness of exercise interventions on gross motor skills in children with aut

Mengyao Feng's systematic review and meta-analysis, published on figshare in March 2026, synthesizes evidence from 16 studies involving 493 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The analysis evaluates the effectiveness of different exercise types and dosages on balance, locomotor, and object control skills, reporting standardized mean differences and confidence intervals. The document is a 22.4 KB DOCX file containing the full review results and statistical findings.

Use Cases

• Compare the effect sizes of land-based versus aquatic sports on gross motor skills based on the reported subgroup analysis.
• Inform clinical practice guidelines for optimal intervention dosage (≤1440 minutes) based on the meta-analysis results.
• Identify research gaps for future randomized controlled trials on technically-assisted sports interventions for ASD.
• Validate or contextualize new study findings against the pooled effect sizes for balance, locomotor, and object control skills.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on 16 controlled trials involving 493 children with ASD, providing a quantitative synthesis.
• Reports specific, large effect sizes (SMD 0.81-0.86) with 95% confidence intervals for three gross motor skill domains.
• Includes detailed subgroup analysis comparing exercise types (land-based, aquatic, technically-assisted) and intervention dosages.
• Documentation includes PROSPERO systematic review registration identifier (CRD420251185572) for transparency.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 22.4 KB DOCX document; the underlying tabular meta-analysis data (e.g., study-level data) is not provided as a separate, machine-readable file.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any potential supplementary data are unknown.
• The geographic and institutional origins of the 16 included primary studies are not specified in the provided metadata, which may indicate source bias.

Provenance

Source

Mengyao Feng via figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and non-randomized controlled trials from multiple databases (PubMed, Web of Science, etc.).

Time Range

Literature search covered databases from inception until September 20, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:35:08