WhatsApp-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Feasibility Trial.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2020-0109

Oğuz K Esentürk, Erkan Yarımkaya

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of a WhatsApp-based physical activity for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Fourteen parents and their children with ASD participated in the study. The intervention included parents conducting physical activities with their children with ASD for 4 weeks. Physical activity contents were provided to parents via the WhatsApp group. The data were collected through the Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire and a feasibility questionnaire adapted from previous studies examining the feasibility of web-based physical activities. Parents reported that WhatsApp-based physical activities were a feasible intervention to increase the physical activity level of their children with ASD and stated that the contents of the physical activity shared in the WhatsApp group were useful. The findings provided preliminary evidence for the use of WhatsApp-based physical activities to increase the physical activity level of children with ASD who stay at home due to the pandemic.

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新型冠状病毒(COVID-19)大流行期间基于whatsapp的自闭症谱系障碍儿童身体活动干预:可行性试验

本研究的目的是评估基于whatsapp的体育活动对自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)儿童的可行性和潜在疗效。14位自闭症家长和他们的孩子参与了这项研究。干预包括父母与自闭症儿童一起进行为期四周的体育活动。通过WhatsApp群向家长提供体育活动内容。数据是通过“休闲时间运动问卷”和一份可行性问卷收集的，该问卷改编自先前关于网络体育活动可行性的研究。家长报告说，基于WhatsApp的体育活动是一种可行的干预措施，可以提高自闭症儿童的体育活动水平，并表示WhatsApp群中分享的体育活动内容是有用的。研究结果为使用基于whatsapp的体育活动来增加因大流行而呆在家里的ASD儿童的体育活动水平提供了初步证据。

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

10.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.