PAUSE is for education and self-screening only. It does NOT diagnose, treat, deliver psychotherapy, or replace consultation with a qualified medical professional. It is NOT an emergency service.
PAUSE — Preventive Approach to Unhealthy Screen Exposure — was born out of a simple observation. In community medicine, we treat populations, not just patients. And what we kept seeing was invisible — people anxious from midnight health searches, students fragmenting their attention across endless feeds, professionals unable to switch off. The harm was real. The measurement tools weren't. So we built one.
PAUSE doesn't estimate your digital health — it measures it. Every scale used in this app has been peer-reviewed, validated on real populations, and proven to reliably detect genuine disorder. Your Digital Wellness Score (DWS) is a composite of all six, giving you a single number that reflects your overall digital wellbeing.
India has no large-scale data on digital health disorders. None. Every assessment you complete adds a real data point to what will become the first population-level picture of this — one that could shape school curricula, workplace policies, and public health guidelines for years to come.
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