JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face a heightened risk of care gaps and preventable complications during the transition from pediatric to adult care. AYAs from low-income families are more likely to experience poor outcomes. Care guidelines for T1D now recommend a transition program beginning several years prior to anticipated independence. However, existing transition programs often require substantial resources, limiting their scalability and accessibility.

Being active benefits children and their parents, but there is a lack of co-designed resources that support families to engage in physical activity (PA) together.

Infants with complex heart disease often have delayed development, learning difficulties, and mental health problems as they grow older. Their parents and other caregivers engage in online health information–seeking behavior to understand and support their children’s health and development.

Hospitalization poses significant psychosocial challenges for children, including anxiety, emotional distress, and disruption of daily routines. While animal-assisted therapy has shown benefits, practical barriers such as infection control concerns and inconsistent availability limit its implementation in pediatric wards. Social robots have emerged as a promising alternative, but evidence on their psychosocial impact in pediatric settings remains limited. LOVOT is a companion robot designed for emotional engagement through warmth, softness, and nonverbal interaction; however, no studies have examined its effects in pediatric health care.

Screen-based media use among children has been increasing, particularly in lower socioeconomic groups. As this behavior is linked to obesogenic habits, it is crucial to examine the associations between screen-based media use and adiposity in primary schoolchildren, particularly those from socially vulnerable contexts, such as children from the Educational Territories of Priority Intervention program.

Collaboration between speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and parents is central to pediatric speech sound disorder (SSD) intervention. Prior research has emphasized the relational and home-practice components of collaboration; however, little is known about the enactment, organization, and maintenance of collaborative processes across SLP sessions and home practice in relation to speech sound generalization.

The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in infant nutrition through its effects on energy metabolism, nutrient absorption, and immune regulation. However, evidence from Indonesian infants remains limited.

Idiopathic scoliosis is a common 3D spinal deformity with a global prevalence of 2% to 3% in adolescents. Early detection is crucial for timely intervention and preventing curve progression. Although standing full-spine radiography with Cobb angle measurement remains the diagnostic gold standard, its time-consuming nature limits its utility for large-scale screening. Safe, rapid, and noninvasive screening methods are urgently needed to identify high-risk individuals while reserving x-rays for definitive diagnosis.

Given growing concern about maternal loneliness in Japan, this secondary analysis of municipal evaluation data suggests that the nationwide Universal Home Visit Program for Families with Infants (“Hello Baby”) may serve as an initial point of contact and an entry point for expanding parenting support networks, with most mothers receiving a visit and reporting encouragement to talk with someone afterward.

Chronic preventable diseases represent a major burden in Canada, often rooted in unhealthy behaviors established during childhood. Despite recommendations for routine screening, most children are not assessed due to clinical barriers. This paper presents the early development of Project DISCO, a self-administered, digital preappointment tool to screen for and support healthy lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, sleep, nutrition, and screen time, in children aged 2 to 12 years.

Based on its nature, cyberbullying is expected to be frequent and prevalent because of the continuity of technological advancement over time. This change results in more victims and is challenging to detect, negatively affecting their health. Given that adolescents in Jordan face a high rate of cyberbullying, it is essential to understand how this experience affects them.

The Daniel Stern concept of the motherhood constellation describes a distinctive psychic organization that emerges in the transition to motherhood, structured by 3 relational discourses and 4 thematic concerns: safeguarding infant life and growth, establishing primary relatedness, securing a matrix of support, and reorganizing maternal identity. Formulated in the mid-1990s, this framework preceded the pervasive integration of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life. Contemporary mothers now care for infants in environments saturated by online information, connectivity, and AI-mediated support, raising questions about how these factors participate in and reshape the Stern architecture. This theoretical paper argues that smartphones and AI function not as neutral tools but as systemic actors within the motherhood constellation. Drawing on the Stern model, attachment theory, mentalization research, ecological perspectives, sociotechnical theory, and empirical work on technoference, maternal smartphone use, digital parenting, online maternal communities, and AI-based mental health interventions, we conceptualize digital technologies as entities whose affordances co-structure maternal psychic life. Available findings indicate that they simultaneously expand access to information and support, introduce interactional disruptions, and create new, partially algorithmic matrices of support, with effects moderated by patterns of use, maternal reflective functioning, child characteristics, platform design, and socio-structural conditions. We propose a technologically mediated motherhood constellation, in which smartphones and AI enter all 3 discourses (mother–own-mother, mother–self-as-mother, and mother-infant) and all 4 themes. Rather than asking whether technology is “good” or “bad” for motherhood, we outline a spectrum from technology-enhanced to technology-disrupted constellations and derive implications for clinical practice, research, technology design, and social policy.