Assessing the effects of the “Raisonnons nos écrans” programme
Raisonnons nos écrans is a programme of the Clinique contributive run in Saint-Denis by the IRI, the Institut de recherche et d'innovation, as part of the Territoire apprenant contributif. It is aimed at parents and early childhood and health professionals who are worried about very young children's overexposure to screens.
Over the sessions, participants analyse their digital practices and learn about child development, the attention economy and addiction, before building concrete actions together, such as parents' cafés or talks in schools.
The MILDECA, the French interministerial mission against drugs and addictive behaviours, which supported the programme with the City of Saint-Denis, wanted to know its effects. Which indicators should be used, and for what purpose? How can figures and participants' stories be set side by side without reducing one to the other?
Our questionnaires looked at participants' practices, their representations and their sense of legitimacy, because the issue went well beyond screen time. The aim was to understand how a group of parents, professionals and researchers creates a collective feeling of support, and how sharing knowledge helps everyone feel more capable in the face of a subject that weighs on their daily life.
The report combines the quantitative results with quotes and thoughts shared by the parents, and describes how they feel at the end of a programme that is at once learning, a support group and research.
