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articles. The final exclusion of these articles was due to the study having no
deafblind participants, rather the studies had some deaf and some blind
participants. The other articles failed to report any issues of movement related to
deafblindness. Once the full texts were screened, we were left with n=10
documents. Refer to Figure 1 for the Prisma diagram.
Results
In this review of the literature, ten studies were identified that examined
youth, deafblindness, physical activity and motor competence. A total of 579
articles were identified while searching the databases. From the total, 149 duplicate
articles were eliminated and another 204 from the title. Screening of the title and
abstract eliminated another 170 articles leaving 56 full-text articles to be assessed
for eligibility. From the final screening ten sources were included in this review of
literature call to action paper. Table 1 indicates key information from each of the
articles used in this review. The tables included information on each study
including the (a) author and year the study was published (b) study design (c)
number of participants (d) aims of the study and (e) the key results of the studies
Participants
The total number of participants in the ten studies was N=438. Of the 438
participants, 51.4% (n=225) were females, and 48.9% (n=214) were males. The
youngest age tested was 1.5 years old and the oldest age tested was 20 years old in
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