Editorial Policy

Editorial mission and scope

Pause Moment publishes content for adults working on medication adherence and family presence. Scope covers practical behavior change, the research behind why specific patterns recur, and product-mechanism content for the Pause Moment Android app. Out of scope: clinical guidance, tapering protocols, dosing schedules, and any content that would substitute for a clinician relationship.

Voice variants

The site uses two voice variants, each scoped to a specific surface type.

Third-person editorial voice is the default. It applies to cornerstone articles, listicles, comparison articles, Q&A pages, definitional pages, and bottom-of-funnel pages. Content reads as research-backed editorial rather than personal essay.

First-person founder voice is reserved for the founder-story surface. Pages on that surface use lived-experience narrative authored by Ezra Halevi, founder of Pause Moment. Founder voice does not appear on cluster pages, comparison pages, or any other editorial surface.

The separation is structural. The two surfaces have different URL trees, different schema types (BlogPosting for founder narrative, Article for editorial content), and different breadcrumb hierarchies. Competitor mentions on the founder-story surface appear only as lived-experience illustrations. Comparison-grade competitor claims live on the editorial cluster pages.

AI-assisted drafting disclosure

Pause Moment uses AI-assisted drafting on founder-voice content. The author edits and verifies every AI-assisted draft before publication. Where AI assistance was used on a founder-voice page, a footer disclosure appears reading: "Drafted with AI assistance, edited and verified by Ezra Halevi, founder of Pause Moment. The research citations and product design decisions are my own."

The disclosure is required only on founder-voice content. Editorial-voice content does not carry the disclosure because editorial voice does not stake the first-person claim that requires individual attribution.

Sourcing standards

Editorial content cites peer-reviewed research and authoritative health sources (PubMed, JAMA, NIH, NHS, Cochrane, JMIR, JAMA Pediatrics) where claims touch on medical or behavioral mechanisms. Inline attribution appears within 300 characters of every cited claim, in the format [Author et al., Year, Journal], with a corresponding Sources section at the bottom of every article.

Citation minimums by cluster: ADHD articles require at least 5 peer-reviewed citations; antidepressant articles require at least 8; parents articles require at least 3 drawn from parenting research; situation-based moments articles inherit the 8-citation floor.

Brand-named competitor claims (pricing, marketing language, feature sets, product positioning) cite the competitor's own published source within 300 characters of the claim.

Brand-named claim maintenance

Any page that makes a brand-named competitor claim carries a visible "Last reviewed" timestamp and enters a 30-day refresh cadence. The cadence is mandatory because competitor products change pricing, features, and marketing language on their own timelines, and stale claims read as factual when they no longer are. The site treats stale brand-named claims as a correction-class error.

Refresh-cadence work re-verifies each brand-named claim against the competitor's current published source. Where a claim has changed, the article is updated and the "Last reviewed" timestamp is advanced. Where a claim is no longer verifiable, it is removed.

Correction policy

Errors on the site are corrected with a visible note dated and signed by the author. Where an error is factual (a misstated statistic, a misquoted source, an outdated competitor claim), the correction replaces the incorrect text and a "Correction" line is added below the affected paragraph or in the article footer. Where an error is editorial (a claim that exceeded the evidence, a framing that misrepresented an audience), the correction is treated with the same weight as a factual error and noted in the same way.

Readers can report suspected errors to [email protected].

Conflict of interest disclosure

Pause Moment is an Android app built by Ezra Halevi, who is also the author of founder-story content and the editorial reviewer for all content on this site. The site refers to and recommends Pause Moment because the product is the reason the site exists. This is disclosed openly here, in the footer of every article that mentions the product, and inside the Pause Moment app store listing.

Editorial content on this site is held to the same sourcing and accuracy standards regardless of whether an article mentions Pause Moment. Comparison articles name competitors honestly and describe their strengths where those strengths are real, even where doing so weakens the case for Pause Moment.

Review cadence

This policy is reviewed every 30 days. The "Last reviewed" timestamp at the top of the page reflects the most recent review. Material changes to editorial practice are logged at the bottom of this section with a date.

Last reviewed: 2026-05-22. Next scheduled review: 2026-06-21.