How to Use the Clinician’s Media Use Toolkit
This toolkit contains research, anticipatory guidance, and patient education materials to help you to
- Talk with your patients about the effects of media on their health
- Support your patients in building healthy media habits
- Identify your patients’ problematic media use behaviors
Parts of the Toolkit
- Screening Forms
- Adolescent Media and Health History Form, a brief screening tool for adolescents
- Parent Media and Health History Form, a brief screening tool for adolescents
- IAT (Patients), an in-depth screening tool for adolescents
- PCIAT (Parents), an in-depth screening tool for parents
- Scoring and Interpretation
- Flowchart, which provides a visual representation of how to use the Clinician Toolkit
- Scoring Overview, which provides information on how to score the four screening tools
- Patient Education Materials
- Anticipatory Guidance
- Evidence-based information for clinicians on a variety of topics related to media and health
This toolkit was created with funding from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Page last updated October 31, 2022.