*3.2. Characteristics of Included Studies and Quality Assessment*

After the inclusion and exclusion criteria had been applied, a total of 38 articles (39 studies) were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis. These studies were carried out in 19 different countries as follows: Australia [28], Belgium [29], Brazil [30–34], Britain [35–37], China [38–43], Croatia [44], Germany [45], Iran [46], Indonesia [47,48], Ireland [49,50], Japan [51], Korea [52], Myanmar [53], Poland [54,55], Portugal [56,57], Puerto Rico [58], Singapore [59], South Africa [60,61] and the USA [29,62–65]. A total of 2598 children participated in the FMS assessment, 8837 children participated in the locomotor skills assessment, and 8394 children participated in the object control skills assessment, ranging in age from 3 to 6 years old. A total of 33 studies were cross-sectional studies [28–38,40,43–45,47–63,65], one was a case–control study [39], one was a cohort study [42], two were quasi-experimental studies [46,64], and one was a randomized controlled study [41]. There were 2 studies that used TGMD-1 [44,58], 30 that used TGMD-2 [28–32,35–41,43,46,47,50–57,59–64], 1 that used the modified version of TGMD-2 [33], 5 that used TGMD-3 [42,45,48,49,65], and 1 that used the modified version of TGMD-3 [34]. Based on the JBI quality evaluation criteria, the quality scores of the included studies ranged from 60% to 100%. Most of the included articles are of high quality, a few are of medium quality, and none of them are of low quality. Test locations, test items, score reports and quality assessments are shown in Table 1.

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