SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2025
Designed physical activities targeting social skills in preschoolers: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Principal Component Analysis Applied to In-School Inertial Measurement Unit-Derived Data During Physical Activity: A Systematic Review Highlighting Children's Behavioral Patterns.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Using Creative Dance to Promote Autonomy Development in Young Children in China: An Intervention Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: To comprehensively evaluate the impact of Designed Physical Activities (DPA) on the social skills of preschoolers, as well as its specific subdomains. Methods: We obtained data from Web of Science, EBSCO, cochrane library, PubMed, PsycInfo, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WanfangData, and VIP Data from the establishment of each databases to June, 21, 2024. Two researchers independently assessed the quality of the study using the Cochrane risk of the bias assessment tool. Meta-analysis was performed when data were available, with further subgroup analysis, using Review Manager 5.4, and sensitivity analysis was performed using Stata software 15.1. Results: Search terms yielded 7,074 articles, of which 14 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Results showed that DPA had beneficial effects for social skills [SMD = 0.63, Conclusion: DPA can significantly improve social skills and emotional skill in preschoolers. Nevertheless, it is imperative to conduct further trials with meticulous and rigorous study designs in order to furnish more definitive evidence in the foreseeable future.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.