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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019

Promoting Executive Functioning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Mixed Martial Arts Training.

Janice N Phung, Wendy A Goldberg

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Janice N PhungDepartment of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 4201 SBSG, Irvine, CA, 92697-7085, USA. jnphung@uci.edu.
Wendy A GoldbergDepartment of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 4201 SBSG, Irvine, CA, 92697-7085, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a mixed martial arts (MMA) intervention in improving executive functions (EFs) in a sample with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). School-aged children with ASD were randomly assigned to a MMA intervention group or a waitlist control (WLC) group. The intervention featured a 26-class program over a 13-week period; the WLC group did not participate in any martial arts between pre- and post-test. Results indicated that the MMA group had significantly better EFs at post-test compared to the WLC group. The intervention appeared to be efficacious in meeting its goals of improving the executive functioning of children with ASD. The present study extends the current literature on the malleability of EFs among children with ASD.

Indexed as

Executive FunctionAutism Spectrum DisorderChildExercise TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMartial ArtsTreatment OutcomeAutism spectrum disorderBehavior regulationEmotion regulationExecutive functioningInterventionMartial arts

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PMID31240587

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