Effect of Brain Gym Therapy on Working Memory, Attention and Mood in People with Smartphone Addiction

Background: Smartphone addiction (SA) is the theoretically defined criteria of behavioral addiction, which include the psychological physical dependence saliency, impulsivity, spotlight behavior and relapse. It is particularly common among individuals aged 18-25. Smartphone has detrimental effects on Working Memory, Attention and Mood. Brain Gym Therapy is series of simple motion exercises and connecting the body and mind. Purpose: The Smartphone Addiction is common in young Individual. It affect the Working Memory, Attention and Mood. Thus present study is to evaluate the effect of brain gym therapy on working memory, attention and mood in people with Smartphone addiction. Methodology: After receiving ethical clearance all participants selected and included as per criteria. 126 Participants were divided into 2 groups by convenient method. Smartphone Addicted Group (n=63) received Brain Gym Therapy for 60 min. 5 session/week for 4 weeks. And Non Smartphone Addicted Group received Ergonomics Education on 1st day and follow up weekly. Outcome Measure was Digit Span Test, Stroop Test and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Analysis was done at baseline and after 4 weeks. Result: All the statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 20.0 software for windows. Normality of data was obtained by Kolmogorov-Smirnov. Intragroup comparison of post intervention scores of variables was done by Non parametric Wilcoxon Test. Both Groups improve significantly at the end of 4th week. Conclusion: The finding of this study suggested that Brain Gym Therapy and Ergonomic Education both are significantly effective. Brain Gym therapy provide potential benefits in reduction of adverse effects of Smartphone and it reached parallel with people with Non Smartphone addicted. In additional Ergonomic education also provide significant improvement and prevent the adverse effect of Smartphone addiction.