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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/audit-family-technology-by-interrupted-moments-not-only-total-screen-time",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1150",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Audit family technology by interrupted moments, not only total screen time",
  "summary": "Forty minutes after bedtime and forty minutes during shared play are not the same family event.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "For a short audit, note where device use occurs and whether it displaces or interrupts a valued interaction. Keep the measure lightweight: routine, reason, interruption and return. The research on parental technology use is contextual and does not support one universal safe minute limit, so use the audit to find changeable patterns rather than manufacture a score.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not infer causation from a personal log or monitor family members intrusively. The cited review found small associations and substantial evidence limitations."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-family-digital-presence"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-3632E48A64FE432A"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In children younger than five, parental technology use in the child's presence was associated with small differences in cognition, several psychosocial outcomes, attachment and child screen time in the reported meta-analyses.",
      "source_id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The associations were small, most included evidence was observational, and the review does not establish that a specific device-free routine causes better developmental outcomes.",
      "locator": "Abstract and Results"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Selected acute-interruption studies in the review found more child bids for attention and negative affect during some device interruptions, while other outcomes and studies were null or mixed.",
      "source_id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "role": "contextualizes",
      "note": "The experiments were heterogeneous and short term; they do not justify treating every necessary device use as harmful or claiming one interruption-management script is validated.",
      "locator": "Narrative Synthesis"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A household tracks device minutes but still cannot explain why some technology use feels disruptive and other use does not."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not infer causation from a personal log or monitor family members intrusively. The cited review found small associations and substantial evidence limitations."
  ],
  "example": "A work call during solo cleanup is recorded differently from repeated message checking while the child is telling a story.",
  "check": "The audit identifies one recurring context to protect or redesign instead of producing only a larger screen-time number.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "title": "Parental Technology Use in a Child's Presence and Health and Development in the Early Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis",
      "url": "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2833506"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1150",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1148",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/protect-one-interaction-critical-family-routine-from-device-interruptions"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-439378623D2C5D42",
      "title": "Protect parent-child attention when work and devices can follow you everywhere",
      "url": "/collections/protect-parent-child-attention-when-work-and-devices-can-follow-you-everywhere"
    }
  ]
}