Active commuting to school is associated with better cognitive performance among girls but not boys in two reviewed studies¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Two reviewed studies found ACS effects on cognition only among girls: verbal, numeric, and reasoning task performance, overall cognitive performance, and d2 Test of Attention performance. → Phansikar 2019

Evidence¶

Phansikar 2019¶

Phansikar, M.; Ashrafi, S.A.; Khan, N.A.; Massey, W.V.; Mullen, S.P. (2019). Active Commute in Relation to Cognition and Academic Achievement in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Future Recommendations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245103

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r1

Systematic review synthesis of sex-difference findings in ACS–cognition studies. The review reports that "Among girls only, ACS was positively associated with verbal, numeric, and reasoning task performance" and d2 Test of Attention performance.

"Among girls only, ACS was positively associated with verbal, numeric, and reasoning task performance, as well as overall cognitive performance [45], and performance on the d2 Test of Attention [47]."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Longer duration of active commuting relates to better cognitive performance in a dose–response pattern among girls
• Within included studies, ACS was positively associated with cognitive performance and academic achievement in adolescent girls but not adolescent boys — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Among younger children, active commuting shows negative associations with grades and reading comprehension in some studies — related
• Active commuting to school shows a positive association with at least one cognitive measure in a majority of reviewed studies, though findings are inconsistent across measures — related