| Ref ID | 221 |
| First Author | T. M. Wassenaar |
| Journal | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2020 |
| URL | https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12966-020-00959-y.pdf |
| Keywords |
• Cognition • Paediatrics • Public health |
| Problem(s) |
• No registered or published protocol • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • Inconclusive or lack of recommendations |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Aim | To assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR 2) for systematic reviews of the effects of chronic physical activity on academic achievement, cognitive performance and the brain in children and adolescents published up to February 2019. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Of the 19 included systematic reviews of the effects of chronic physical activity in children and adolescents: one was high-quality and eighteen were (critically) low-quality reviews. Low quality reviews suggested physical activity-related brain changes, but lacked an interpretation of these findings. Only 26% of included reviews had an a-priori design, 16% included an overview of excluded studies, 72% assessed risk of bias, but only 15% reviews considered quality information in their evidence synthesis. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 19 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 908 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
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| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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