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Health Personnel’s Perceived Usefulness of Internet-Based Interventions for Parents of Children Younger Than 5 Years: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey Study

However, child and youth mental health workers seem cautiously positive [23,24], particularly in the prevention and treatment of mild-to-moderate mental health problems [24,25].

Hege Therese Størksen, Silje Marie Haga, Kari Slinning, Filip Drozd

JMIR Ment Health 2020;7(11):e15149

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The Rise and Need for Mobile Apps for Maternal and Child Health Care in China: Survey Based on App Markets

Improving the health and well-being of women and children has remained a common goal throughout the world [3-6].With the rapid development of mHealth, thousands of maternal and child health (MCH) apps have appeared in China in Android app markets and Apple’

Puhong Zhang, Le Dong, Huan Chen, Yanling Chai, Jianbo Liu

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(6):e140

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Differences Between Mothers and Fathers of Young Children in Their Use of the Internet to Support Healthy Family Lifestyle Behaviors: Cross-Sectional Study

Participants were asked about their use of the internet in general and for information on their own health, dieting, recipes, child health, how to feed their baby, and how to play with their baby.

Rachel Laws, Adam D Walsh, Kylie D Hesketh, Katherine L Downing, Konsita Kuswara, Karen J Campbell

J Med Internet Res 2019;21(1):e11454

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Engaging Patients and Professionals to Evaluate the Seriousness of Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: Protocol for a Modified Delphi Study

Despite decades of research, prevention of poor maternal and child health outcomes in the United States remains challenging.Maternal weight gain during pregnancy is one of the few potentially modifiable risk factors for many maternal and child health outcomes

Lisa M Bodnar, Dmitry Khodyakov, Katherine P Himes, Jessica G Burke, Sara Parisi, Jennifer A Hutcheon

JMIR Res Protoc 2020;9(6):e16478

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You Will Know That Despite Being HIV Positive You Are Not Alone: Qualitative Study to Inform Content of a Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

IntroductionGlobally, over 90% of pediatric HIV infections are attributed to mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT), with 160,000 children newly infected with HIV in 2016 [1].

Jade Fairbanks, Kristin Beima-Sofie, Pamela Akinyi, Daniel Matemo, Jennifer A Unger, John Kinuthia, Gabrielle O'Malley, Alison L Drake, Grace John-Stewart, Keshet Ronen

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(7):e10671

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A Capacity Building Program to Improve the Self-Efficacy of Key Workers to Support the Well-Being of Parents of a Child With a Disability Accessing an Early Childhood Intervention Service: Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge Design Trial

Several aspects of parental mental well-being can be adversely impacted when caring for a child with a disability, including mental and physical health, marital relationships, and participation in social and economic life [19-26].

Elise Davis, Dana Young, Kim-Michelle Gilson, John Reynolds, Rob Carter, Utsana Tonmukayakul, Katrina Williams, Lisa Gibbs, Rachael McDonald, Dinah Reddihough, Jane Tracy, Jennifer Morgan, Paul Ireland, Cassie Kenyon, Rod Carracher

JMIR Res Protoc 2019;8(4):e12531

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The Mobile Solutions for Immunization (M-SIMU) Trial: A Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial That Assesses the Impact of Mobile Phone Delivered Reminders and Travel Subsidies to Improve Childhood Immunization Coverage Rates and Timeliness in Western Kenya

As an example, if a child receives pentavalent1 at 8 weeks of age (scheduled to be given at 6 weeks), the immunization reminders for pentavalent2 will be sent when the child is 12-weeks old (instead of the KEPI schedule of 10 weeks).Text message reminders are

Dustin G Gibson, E. Wangeci Kagucia, Benard Ochieng, Nisha Hariharan, David Obor, Lawrence H. Moulton, Peter J. Winch, Orin S Levine, Frank Odhiambo, Katherine L. O'Brien, Daniel R. Feikin

JMIR Res Protoc 2016;5(2):e72

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Effects of Using Child Personas in the Development of a Digital Peer Support Service for Childhood Cancer Survivors

The original idea of salutogenesis states that it is more important to focus on peoples’ resources and capacities to create health rather than focusing on risks, ill health, and disease (pathogenesis) [24].

Pontus Wärnestål, Petra Svedberg, Susanne Lindberg, Jens M Nygren

J Med Internet Res 2017;19(5):e161

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A Model of Intervention and Implementation of Quality Building and Quality Control in Childcare Centers to Strengthen the Mental Health and Development of 1-3–Year Olds: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Thrive by Three

by Three is grounded in transactional models for development [24,25] and research showing that interactions between young children and caregivers are primary mechanisms of mental health, child development, and learning [26-29].

Ratib Lekhal, May Britt Drugli, Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen, Elisabet Solheim Buøen

JMIR Res Protoc 2020;9(10):e17726

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Personalized Web-Based Advice in Combination With Well-Child Visits to Prevent Overweight in Young Children: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

The advice is based on most recent guidelines for child health-related behavior. In this study, the eHealth module was offered online to parents before two regular well-child visits at a preventive YHC organization at 18 and 24 months of age.

Amy van Grieken, Eline Vlasblom, Lu Wang, Maaike Beltman, Magda M Boere-Boonekamp, Monique P L'Hoir, Hein Raat

J Med Internet Res 2017;19(7):e268

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