Exercise Interventions for Autistic People: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Clinical Trials

Current Psychiatry Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 12, 2025

This review integrates recent findings from randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) research examining the impacts of physical exercise activities on various aspects and areas functioning for autistic individuals. Recent meta-analytic trials indicates intervention programs improve social communication skills children adolescents, executive children, sleep-related behavior may be helpful improving health children. There is very limited RCT evidence approaches or adults, girls women, people with co-occurring intellectual disability, reducing negative emotional symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression) any population. The extant provides convincing, consistent positive multiple adolescents. Additional needed to determine ensure potential activity important sub-populations, including adults.

Language: Английский

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Effects of Physical Activity on Cognition, Behavior, and Motor Skills in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies

Behavioral Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 330 - 330

Published: April 15, 2024

The aim of this paper was to analyze the acute and chronic effects physical activity (PA) on cognition, behavior, motor skill in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), taking into account potential confounders. In addition, it intended elaborate a guide educational applications strategies for PA use. Studies were identified four databases from January 2010 June 2023. A total 19 interventional studies met inclusion criteria. programs ranged two weeks one year duration, frequency five sessions per week. More than 58% showed positive 45.5% behavior skill. Moderate–vigorous 15–30 min has shown general stereotypic/repetitive behaviors ASD. 9 out 14 stereotypic behaviors, only 6 skills.

Language: Английский

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The Analysis of Aerobic Exercise Recognition for College Students' Health based on Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 13, 2025

Aerobic exercise awareness is a key factor in promoting the health and well-being of college students. However, existing action recognition models face significant challenges handling joint semantic information at different levels granularity indiscriminately processing all joints during training. To address these issues, this work suggests deep learning neural network-based approach for recognizing it. enable high-precision aerobic activity recognition, system includes multi-granularity spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (MGST-GCN), long short-term memory (LSTM) network, (CNN). In research, integrated model on NTU-RGB+D dataset obtains Top-1 accuracy 85.4% Top-5 95.2%. Furthermore, using Kinetics-Skeleton dataset, 87.6% 96.8%. The comparative (3D-CNN two-stream CNN) are substantially underperformed by outcomes. This investigation assesses how affects students’ model. College heart rates decrease 12.2%, their intensity increases 13.3%, duration 15[Formula: see text]min, calorie consumption 20.8%, frequency 33.3% when they engage exercise, such as running, according to experimental results. These findings indicate that not only makes an innovative contribution field but also provides effective support management among Future research will pay more attention enhancing model’s generalization ability, expanding coverage datasets, introducing indicators further enhance system’s performance application scope.

Language: Английский

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Effects of physical activity on motor, communication, social, and executive function in children with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 7, 2025

Background Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder with characteristic impairments including social and communication deficits, restricted interests, repetitive behaviors. Physical activity has shown promise as non-pharmacological intervention to improve motor skills, executive function, interaction in children Disorder. However, existing studies often overlook age-specific effects. This study aims evaluate the impact of physical on key functional domains through meta-analysis. Methods conducted searches across four databases up March 2024, identify pertinent RCTs. The systematic screening, data extraction, quality assessment, analysis were independently by two reviewers. A total 19 included analysis. 609 participants involved. Results findings indicated that interventions exhibit potential ameliorate relevant symptoms ASD. Specifically, ability (SMD = 0.58, 95%CI: 0.28, 0.87, p>0.05) 0.72, 0.43, 1.01, p<0.05) showed moderate large effect size. Large sizes noted for 2.06, 95%CI:1.15, 2.96, p<0.05), whereas function 0.46, 95%CI:0.23, 0.69, exhibited Conclusions Our investigation demonstrates exerts constructive influence augmenting communication, social, motor, capabilities disparities optimal effects observed functioning outcomes are contingent upon duration, frequency, period.

Language: Английский

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Effect of an acute bout of exercise on executive function and sleep in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder.

Mental health and physical activity, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27, P. 100624 - 100624

Published: Aug. 2, 2024

The present study aimed to examine the effect of an acute bout circuit-base exercise on executive function, visual perception and sleep parameters in neurodiverse children. After familiarisation, 34 children (4 female) with ADHD and/or ASD completed two trials (30-min circuit-based (E) or a rested control (C) trial) randomised, counterbalanced, crossover design. Participants cognitive function tests (Stroop test, Sternberg Paradigm Visual Search Test) at baseline, immediately post-exercise, morning after exercise. were provided wrist actigraph wear overnight determine duration, wake onset, efficiency, latency. Statistical analyses conducted via ANCOVA, diagnosis included as covariate. Accuracy Stroop test (complex level) was better maintained following when compared rest post-exercise (E: 1.88% decreased accuracy; C: 4.73% accuracy, p=0.009), day 1.22% increased 6.37% p<0.001). (5-item improved trial 0.37% 7.29% p=0.011). Improvements accuracy across both expense response time, which slower (all p<0.05). Sleep did not differ p>0.05). Moderate intensity is ecologically valid modality that, acutely, improves (compared rest), may alleviate impaired ASD.

Language: Английский

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Benefits of exercise for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Oct. 7, 2024

Background Numerous experimental studies have shown that exercise can serve as an intervention with beneficial effects on children and adolescents autism. However, a systematic review the specific areas affected has not been conducted. Methods Preliminary research sources were obtained by searching four databases, two researchers independently screened literature met study criteria. The was conducted under guidelines of Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews Interventions. Results 37 included in final analysis, which 9 quantitatively synthesized 28 qualitatively analyzed. Exercise interventions positive motor performance, cognitive function, individual social relationships, behavioral problems, physical health, brain function results meta-analysis indicate effectively improve skills [SMD=-0.53, 95%CI (-0.76, -0.3), P=0.000]. Conclusions Long-term, regular, chronic is autism, particularly area skills. registration https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero PROSPERO, identifier CRD42024554530.

Language: Английский

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