Which technology-use interventions improve sleep, attention, relationships, or wellbeing without relying on simplistic screen-time claims?

Evidence boundary

Do not treat total screen time as a universal causal metric or prescribe a single safe threshold.

Discovery queries

• digital wellbeing smartphone use intervention systematic review adults Guardrails: health

Research candidates

• Reducing Work-Related Screen-Time in Healthcare Workers During Leisure Time (REDUCE SCREEN) – A Randomized Controlled Trial · propose-protocol · 2026-01-17
• Digital disconnection as a self-regulatory strategy against procrastination · support-existing · 2026-05-29
• Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being · propose-protocol · 2025-02-18
• Promoting Self-Regulated Social Media Use on Smartphones With a Mobile Intervention App (Wellspent): Randomized Controlled Trial · propose-protocol · 2026-04-08

Reviewed Evidence Decisions

• Promoting Self-Regulated Social Media Use on Smartphones With a Mobile Intervention App (Wellspent): Randomized Controlled Trial · propose-protocol · reviewed 2026-09-01
• Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being · propose-protocol · reviewed 2026-08-27
• Reducing Work-Related Screen-Time in Healthcare Workers During Leisure Time (REDUCE SCREEN) – A Randomized Controlled Trial · propose-protocol · reviewed 2026-09-05
• Digital disconnection as a self-regulatory strategy against procrastination · support-existing · reviewed 2026-08-27

Trusted Topic protocols

• Use the 20-20-20 Rule for Screen Breaks · reviewed

Closure rule

Brali does not close this gap because a paper exists or because a protocol sounds plausible. Closure requires an explicit resolution whose reviewed Evidence Decisions map to this Topic and whose referenced protocols are present in the trusted protocol feed for the same Topic.

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