Table 4.

The pooled effect of social communication function after excluding a single study.

Scoring types and included studies	SMD	95% CI	p (the pooled effect)	I2 (%)
Agnes S. Chan 2013	0.50	0.20,0.80	p < 0.001	55
Ahmadreza Movahedi 2013	0.40	0.10,0.70	p < 0.05	58
Amir Hossein Haghighi 2022	0.47	0.16,0.78	p < 0.05	60
Fatimah Bahrami 2015	0.43	0.12,0.75	p < 0.05	61
Janice N. Phung 2019	0.53	0.26,0.80	p < 0.001	45
Jin-Gui Wang 2020	0.44	0.12,0.76	p < 0.05	61
Kelong Cai 2020	0.42	0.11,0.73	p < 0.05	60
Ke-Long Cai 2020	0.41	0.10,0.71	p < 0.05	58
Mahboubeh G. N 2018	0.41	0.10,0.72	p < 0.05	59
Mirella Zanobini 2019	0.47	0.15,0.78	p < 0.05	60
Sabine C Koch 2015	0.52	0.24,0.80	p < 0.001	49
Sixin Yang 2021	0.41	0.10,0.72	p < 0.05	59
Supritha Aithal 2021	0.45	0.14,0.77	p < 0.05	61
Wenxin Xu 2019	0.41	0.09,0.73	p < 0.05	57