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Abstract
Objective: This study aims to explore the intervention effect of an intervention program based on structured martial arts games on behavioral and motor function disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and to provide a novel and effective intervention strategy for ASD children to enhance their rehabilitation outcomes.
Methods: A randomized controlled trial design was adopted. Fifty-six ASD children were selected from a special education school and randomly divided into an experimental group (28 people) and a control group (28 people). The experimental group received a 24-week structured martial arts game intervention, 3 times a week, 60 min each time; the control group received traditional rehabilitation training. The autism treatment evaluation checklist, autism behavior checklist, and gross motor function measure were used to evaluate the relevant indicators of the two groups of children before and after the intervention, and SPSS 26.0 software was used for statistical analysis.
Results: After the intervention, the improvement of the experimental group in language ability, social communication ability, perceptual ability, health behavior and total score was significantly better than that of the control group (p < 0.05). The experimental group was significantly better than the control group in sensory ability, social ability, motor ability, language ability, self-care ability and total score (p < 0.05). The improvement of the experimental group in lying and rolling, sitting, crawling and kneeling, standing, walking, running and jumping, and total score was significantly higher than that of the control group (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: The structured martial arts game intervention can effectively improve the behavioral and motor disorders of ASD children. This intervention method is both interesting and structured, and can be used as a new approach for the rehabilitation of ASD children. It is recommended to incorporate it into the regular curricula of special education schools and rehabilitation institutions.
目的：本研究旨在探讨基于结构化武术游戏的干预方案对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童行为和运动功能障碍的干预效果，为ASD儿童提供一种新颖有效的干预策略，以提高其康复效果。方法：采用随机对照试验设计。从一所特殊教育学校选出56名ASD儿童，随机分为实验组（28人）和对照组（28人）。实验组接受为期24周的结构化武术游戏干预，每周3次，每次60 min；对照组接受传统康复训练。采用自闭症治疗评价量表、自闭症行为量表、大运动功能量表对干预前后两组儿童的相关指标进行评价，采用SPSS 26.0软件进行统计分析。结果：干预后，实验组在语言能力、社交能力、感知能力、健康行为、总分等方面的改善均显著优于对照组（p p p）。结论：结构化武术游戏干预能有效改善ASD儿童的行为和运动障碍。这种干预方法既有趣又有结构，可以作为ASD儿童康复的新途径。建议将其纳入特殊教育学校和康复机构的常规课程。
期刊介绍：
Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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