Brain Exercises to Improve Attention in Children Who Use Screens for Long Hours

INTERVENTION: Intervention1: Neurobics exercise intervention with Conventional Therapy: The intervention will be administered 2 sessions per week for 4 weeks in a quiet, well‐lit room with minimal distractions. The child will be seated comfortably on a bench facing a desk with feet supported, back upright, and hips and knees maintained at approximately at right angle. A) Non‐dominant Hand Training Drawing Simple Shapes 1. Writing Alphabets from A to Z 2. Bead Stringing 3. Tracing Numbers from 1 to 10 B) Sensory‐based Neurobic Activities They will also receive conventional training 2 sessions per week for 4 weeks. Each session will include A 5‐minute warm‐up consisting of light jogging. Basic stretching exercises targeting the neck, shoulders and arms, chest and back, trunk, and lower limbs. Sixteen minutes of aerobic physical activity including running relay races and obstacle courses on a standard 400‐metre track. A 4‐minute cool‐down consisting of stretching exercises for the neck, shoulders, arms, chest, back, trunk, and lower limbs. An additional 5 minutes for teaching and class arrangement Control Intervention1: Conventional Therapy: Participants allocated to the control group will receive conventional training 2 sessions per week for 4 weeks. Each session will include A 5‐minute warm‐up consisting of light jogging. Basic stretching exercises targeting the neck, shoulders and arms, chest and back, trunk, and lower limbs. Sixteen minutes of aerobic physical activity including running relay races and obstacle courses on a standard 400‐metre track. A 4‐minute cool‐down consisting of stretching exercises for the neck, shoulders, arms, chest, back, trunk, and lower limbs. An additional 5 minutes for teaching and class arrangement CONDITION: PRIMARY OUTCOME: 1. Six Letter Cancellation TestTimepoint: Baseline Pre intervention, before intervention and Post intervention after completion of 4 weeks of intervention SECONDARY OUTCOME: NILTimepoint: NIL INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Children scoring more than or equal to 27 on the Problematic Media Use Measure Short Form and having screen time of more than 2 hours per day will be considered to have excessive screen time. 2. Children scoring below the 25th percentile on the Si XLetter Cancellation Test will be considered to have attention deficit. 3. Children who are able to follow instructions during assessment. 4. Parents who provide written informed consent and children who provide assent