Silva Flaviana Gomes da, Paula Danielle Diniz de, Alves Luciana Mendonça, Santos Juliana Nunes
Departamento da Pós-graduação em Ciências Fonoaudiológicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.
Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia - ICTIN, Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA - Lavras (MG), Brasil.
Codas. 2025 Mar 31;37(3):e20240083. doi: 10.1590/2317-1782/e20240083pt. eCollection 2025.
To investigate evidence of horse riding in the development of language, cognition, social, emotional, and behavioral aspects in neurotypical children and adolescents.
Search in the databases of LILACS, MEDLINE, Web of Science, EMBASE, Scopus, and grey literature, without date or language restrictions. Registration in the Open Science Framework (OSF), under number DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/32ETZ. For search strategies: "Equine-Assisted Therapy", "Child or Adolescent Development", Cognition, Socialization, and "Child Behavior".
Randomized clinical trials and non-randomized experimental before-and-after studies, case series, and prospective observational studies of neurotypically developing people up to 18 years old. Studies with people with disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders were excluded. Interventions researched: horse riding and animal-assisted therapy.
Two judges identified primary studies independently by reading the titles and abstracts, considering the inclusion criteria; a third judge was consulted to resolve divergences. The risk of bias was assessed using the ROBINS-I and ROBINS 2 tools.
Altogether, 131 studies were obtained, and duplicates (27) were removed. Subsequently, 104 studies were analyzed and 77 were excluded. Of the 27 studies evaluated in full text, 21 were excluded. Six studies were eligible for this review - four non-randomized clinical studies and two randomized clinical trials.
The non-randomized studies showed significant improvements in cognitive functions and behavioral and emotional aspects. The randomized studies, on the other hand, found significant gains in social competence.
研究骑马对神经发育正常的儿童和青少年在语言、认知、社交、情感和行为方面发展的影响。
在LILACS、MEDLINE、科学网、EMBASE、Scopus数据库以及灰色文献中进行检索，无日期和语言限制。在开放科学框架（OSF）中注册，编号DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/32ETZ。检索策略为：“马术辅助治疗”、“儿童或青少年发育”、“认知”、“社会化”以及“儿童行为”。
针对18岁以下神经发育正常人群的随机临床试验、非随机前后对照实验研究、病例系列研究和前瞻性观察研究。排除针对残疾人和神经发育障碍患者的研究。研究的干预措施：骑马和动物辅助治疗。
两名评判员根据纳入标准，通过阅读标题和摘要独立确定初步研究；如有分歧则咨询第三名评判员解决。使用ROBINS-I和ROBINS 2工具评估偏倚风险。
共获得131项研究，去除重复项（27项）。随后，对104项研究进行分析，排除77项。在全文评估的27项研究中，排除21项。六项研究符合本综述要求——四项非随机临床研究和两项随机临床试验。
非随机研究表明认知功能以及行为和情感方面有显著改善。另一方面，随机研究发现社交能力有显著提高。
