A WhatsApp-delivered intervention to promote physical activity in young children with autism spectrum disorder

Yarımkaya, Erkan; Esentürk, Oğuz Kaan; İlhan, Ekrem Levent; Karasu, Necdet

doi:10.1080/20473869.2021.1887436

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“…Due to the family isolation caused by the global influence of COVID-19, researchers began to study the feasibility of providing professional support to parents through the Internet to guide children with ASD to participate in sports activities [ 73 , 74 , 75 ], thus avoiding the negative impacts of a lack of PA. Therefore, a sound social support structure, a healthy education system, and regular sports activities can help individuals to achieve healthy physical and mental development in good interpersonal relationships.…”

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Global Trends in Physical-Activity Research of Autism: Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Web of Science Database (1980–2021)

Feng

Hadizadeh

Cheong

2022

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The World Health Organization has identified nervous system diseases as one of the biggest public health problems, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Considering the extensive benefits of physical activity (PA), the literature on the PA research of ASD has increased each year, but there is a lack of bibliometric analyses in this field. To investigate the research achievements worldwide, this paper adopts bibliometrics to analyze the trend in the academic literature on the PA research of ASD published from 1980 to 2021. The documents were retrieved from the Web of Science database, and the search strategy was to combine the keywords related to “physical activity” and “autism spectrum disorder” by using the Boolean operator tools “OR” and “AND” in the title. A total of 359 English documents were retrieved. Microsoft Excel, Data Wrapper, VOSviewer, and Biblioshiny were used for the visual analysis. We found that the number of published documents increased the fastest from 2017 to 2021, which may be due to the promulgation of the Global Action Plan for Physical Activity 2018–2030 and the influence of COVID-19 on the world. The United States and the University of California systems are in the leading position in this field. Cooperation among countries with different levels of development will help to jointly promote the PA research progress on ASD. The focus themes include “individual effect”, “social support” and “activity dose”. The analysis of the frontier topic points out that researchers are paying increasing attention to how to improve the health and physical fitness of this group through PA. This research clearly puts forward a comprehensive overview, theme focus, and future trends in this field, which may be helpful to guide future research.

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Global Trends in Physical-Activity Research of Autism: Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Web of Science Database (1980–2021)

Feng

Hadizadeh

Cheong

2022

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“…A total of 107 publications dealing with autism and social media were reviewed in full text. Five publications met the inclusion criteria [16][17][18][19][20]. Three additional abstracts were obtained from the manual search in conference proceedings and were included in this review [21][22][23].…”

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“…All eight included studies were published between 2015 and 2021. Two of these studies were from Turkey [16,20], two from USA [17,18], two from USA and UK [24,25], one from USA, Canada and UK [26], and one from Ireland [19].…”

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“…Among the eight included publications, four were interventional studies that used specific social media channels to deliver a physical activity intervention to parents of autistic children [16][17][18]20]. The other four publications were observational studies that used social media to recruit autistic adults or parents of children diagnosed with autism.…”

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“…The GRADE assessments related to level of evidence of the findings linking social media, physical activity and autism were graded as moderate in two of the studies [26,20], low in five studies [24,25,[16][17][18], and very low in one study [19].…”

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Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Effects of Family-Professional Partnerships in Adapted Physical Education on the Fundamental Motor Skills, Adaptive Behaviors, and Physical Activity Levels of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and on Parent Satisfaction

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A WhatsApp-delivered intervention to promote physical activity in young children with autism spectrum disorder

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

Global Trends in Physical-Activity Research of Autism: Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Web of Science Database (1980–2021)

Global Trends in Physical-Activity Research of Autism: Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Web of Science Database (1980–2021)

Social media, physical activity and autism: better or bitter together? A scoping review

Effects of Family-Professional Partnerships in Adapted Physical Education on the Fundamental Motor Skills, Adaptive Behaviors, and Physical Activity Levels of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and on Parent Satisfaction

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