SynthesisFrontiers in pediatrics2025
The effect of game-based interventions on children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- The impact of dance activities on social skills and related behaviors in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of fun games on respiratory function and compliance in children with pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Deep neural networks and deep deterministic policy gradient for early ASD diagnosis and personalized intervention in children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of game-based interventions (GBI) for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to identify the clinical efficacy of GBI on core symptoms and other concomitant symptoms of ASD. Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched for articles published until July 2023. Results: Twenty-four studies with 1,801 patients met the inclusion criteria. The results showed that GBI had a significant positive effect on social skills ( Conclusions: The results of the current meta-analysis showed that GBI was effective in improving social skills, social behaviors and cognition in children and adolescents with ASD in the existing studies and was not significant in improving language skills, anxiety and parental stress, but due to the limited number and low quality of the included studies, the above conclusions need to be validated by conducting more large-sample, high-quality RCTs. Systematic Review Registration: www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023390793, identifier: CRD42023390793.
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