患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童表现出较高的体力活动和减少久坐行为
Abdulrahman M Alhowikan1, Nadra E Elamin2, Sarah S Aldayel3
1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia.
Brain sciences
|November 25, 2023
概括
患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的儿童比通常发育的同龄人更积极地从事体力活动 (PA),这可能与自我刺激行为有关. 了解这种PA状态对于定制干预至关重要.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 运动学 运动学
背景情况:
- 以前的研究表明,自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 患者体育活动 (PA) 水平的报道相互矛盾.
- 在ASD中经常假定较低的体力活动水平,需要进一步调查.
- 准确的PA评估对于开发有针对性的干预措施来改善ASD的健康相关健康状况至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查和比较ASD儿童和典型发育 (TD) 儿童之间的身体活动水平.
- 为了确定两个群体之间的轻度,中度和强度活动的差异.
- 探索ASD特征和观察到的PA模式之间的潜在联系.
主要方法:
- 使用ActiGraph监视器 (GT3X+) 对PA和静止行为进行客观测量.
- 包括21名患有自闭症儿童 (平均年龄6.43±2.29岁) 和30名TD儿童 (平均年龄7.2±3.14岁).
- 分析了小组之间轻度,中度和强度体力活动的差异.
主要成果:
- 在ASD儿童和TD儿童之间,轻度和中度活动计数没有发现显著差异.
- 与TD儿童相比,患有ASD的儿童表现出明显更高的剧烈体力活动.
- 在ASD中更高的活力PA可能归因于特征性的刻板印象和自我刺激行为.
结论:
- 患有自闭症的个体比他们的TD同龄人表现出更高水平的剧烈体力活动.
- 这一发现可能与自闭症相关的行为有关,需要进一步探索神经生物学因素,如改变的神经化学,氧化应激和神经炎症.
- 这项研究增强了对ASD患者的PA参与的理解,为未来的干预策略提供了信息.
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