Our Source Policy
Every claim about benefit on Quietarium traces back to a source you can open. We prefer systematic reviews and guidelines, and we say plainly when the evidence is small or missing.
What we accept
- Peer-reviewed studies with a DOI or PMID. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses come first.
- Guidelines from WHO, NICE, APA, CDC, NHS and NIH/NIMH, and from national health ministries.
- Official pages of crisis services, for phone numbers and hours.
What we do not accept
- Blogs and press releases.
- Commercial app sites, including apps that look helpful.
- A single small study presented as proof.
- AI summaries.
- Secondary sources we cannot trace to the original.
If a good claim only reaches us through a secondary source, we find the original or we drop the claim.
How citations look
Citations are numbered in the text as [1], [2] and so on. At the end of the page you find the full list: title, authors or organization, year, and a link. Every claim about benefit carries a number. If a sentence about benefit has no number next to it, treat that as our mistake and tell us.
How we describe evidence
- A small study is called small, with its size stated when the paper gives it.
- When there are no trials yet, we say “no trials yet.”
- We separate what a study measured (for example, self-reported calm) from what people might assume it means.
- We do not turn “helped some people” into “works.”
How often we check
We review sources at least every 12 months, and sooner when a guideline we cite changes. Each page shows the date its sources were last checked. Phone numbers on the crisis page are re-checked every three months.