JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Using social media to deliver e-cigarette cessation interventions to young people is a promising approach, but low participant engagement and retention may undermine intervention efficacy. Peer mentoring holds great potential to address these issues.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading infectious causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with children representing a particularly vulnerable group. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pediatric TB continues to be underdiagnosed and underreported, particularly in rural health zones such as Kabondo Dianda.

Children with medical complexity experience multiple chronic conditions that demand intensive, ongoing, and highly coordinated care, often placing a burden on their parents, who serve as primary caregivers. Digital health offers a promising solution for enhancing care coordination, monitoring, and communication. However, its effectiveness depends on it being developed as a user-centered solution that incorporates feedback from parents, who are the primary decision-makers and advocates in their children’s health care. By prioritizing the voices of parents, especially those from underserved communities, during the design and implementation of digital health solutions, these tools can more effectively meet their unique needs. This ensures that digital health solutions are effective in real-world caregiving scenarios.

Childhood obesity is a global health concern with long-term cardiometabolic and psychosocial consequences. Establishing healthy feeding and lifestyle behaviors from infancy is critical to population health efforts with a life course perspective. Recently, digital health applications have gained traction in reaching out to parents and promoting healthy feeding behaviors.

This study assessed families’ comfort levels with information-sharing between health care providers and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) using a survey-based approach.

Patients with mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) appear to have an increased risk of developing dental disease.

Virtual, augmented, mixed, and other immersive technologies, collectively referred to as extended reality (XR), are increasingly used to enhance experiential learning in health education. By creating interactive 3-dimensional or 360° environments, these technologies allow expectant parents to engage in realistic prenatal and childbirth scenarios, promoting emotional preparedness, knowledge acquisition, and confidence. Although XR has been widely studied in clinical training, its application in prenatal and childbirth education for parents remains less systematically explored.

Virtual reality (VR) technology offers a new approach for the intervention of social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the comparative effects of different forms of VR technology remain unclear.

Parents of young children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are vulnerable to experiencing fear of hypoglycemia (FH), an emotional condition that includes persistent and intense worry about hypoglycemia and/or use of unhealthful behaviors to avoid hypoglycemia. Despite greater uptake of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and automated insulin delivery systems, FH remains prevalent and under-addressed in parents of young children. As such, we developed Reducing Emotional Distress for Childhood Hypoglycemia in Parents (REDCHiP), a video-based telehealth intervention designed to reduce FH in parents by providing T1D education and teaching parents how to apply evidence-based strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and behavioral parent training in their child’s daily T1D care.

In this interview study with 24 adolescent-serving clinicians, participants described current online sexual and reproductive health resources they share with adolescents and highlighted areas of improvement to better meet the developmental needs of this age group.

The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative supports Enhanced Care Management (ECM) for high-need pediatric populations but published evidence of the impact of ECM in pediatric populations is lacking.

Teachers have the potential to be influential figures in school-based health promotion as informal caregivers; yet little is known about what motivates them to initiate preventive conversations with students. Attribution theory offers a useful framework to explore how perceptions of responsibility shape communicative behavior, but it has rarely been applied in the context of teacher-student interactions around health risks such as smoking.