JMIR Formative Research

With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 applications, social media has made it possible for individuals to post messages on antibiotic ineffectiveness. In such online conversations, patients discuss their quality of life. Social media have become key tools for finding and disseminating medical information

Children have busy daily schedules, making school an ideal setting for promoting health-enhancing exercise behavior. However, children with mobility disabilities have limited exercise options to improve their cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic health.

Few personalized behavioral treatments are available to reduce the risk of prescription opioid–related harm among patients with chronic noncancer pain.

Lifestyle modification programs play a critical role in preventing and managing cardiovascular disease. A key aim of many programs is improving patients’ self-efficacy. In-person lifestyle modification programs can improve self-efficacy for managing cardiovascular disease risk, otherwise known as cardiac self-efficacy. However, such programs are typically staffing and resource intensive. Digital lifestyle modification programs may offer a scalable and accessible way to improve cardiac self-efficacy, but this has not been shown in prior research.

Poor medication adherence among older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) and polypharmacy is a public health concern stemming from distinct challenges. Prior interventions have largely utilized a “one size fits all” approach, or resource intensive approaches inappropriate for busy primary care clinics.

The study introduces MedCheckLLM, a Large Language Model-driven framework that enhances medical record evaluation through a guideline-in-the-loop approach by integrating evidence-based guidelines.

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the movement of people across borders in Eastern and Southern Africa. The implementation of border closures and restrictive measures has disrupted the region's economic and social dynamics. In areas where national authorities lack full control over official and unofficial land crossings, enforcing public health protocols to mitigate health risks may prove challenging.

Adolescents with asthma are vulnerable to poor asthma outcomes due to inadequate self-management skills and non-adherence to medications. Mobile health (mHealth) applications have shown promise in improving asthma control, medication adherence, and self-efficacy. However, existing mHealth asthma applications lack personalization and real-time feedback, and are not tailored for at-risk adolescents.

Parents often juggle multiple conflicting responsibilities, including work, childcare, and the household, making them a particularly burdened group. However, the impact of daily routines and associated (poor) well-being among parents has received relatively little attention. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is increasingly being used to capture real-time data and can help address this research gap.

Mobile health apps have high potential to address the widespread deficit in physical activity (PA); however, they have demonstrated greater impact on short-term PA compared to long-term PA. The multi-process action control (M-PAC) framework promotes sustained PA behavior by combining reflective (eg, attitudes) and regulatory (eg, planning and emotion regulation) constructs with reflexive (eg, habits and identity) constructs. Usability testing is important to determine the integrity of a mobile health app’s intrinsic properties and suggestions for improvement before feasibility and efficacy testing.

This paper illustrates the development of a simple online application, which demonstrates the relationship between serum anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1/RBD IgG and anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody (nAb) IC50 titers in a US adult vaccinated population and compares them to prior data on neutralizing antibody titers at different time points after vaccination.

Visits to medical subspecialists are common, with follow-up timing often based on heuristics rather than evidence. Unnecessary visits contribute to long wait times for new patients. Specialists could enhance visit timing and reduce frequency by systematically monitoring patients’ symptoms between visits, especially for symptom-driven conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We previously designed an intervention using a mobile health application to collect patient-reported outcomes (PRO). One of several aims of the app was to assist rheumatologists in determining visit timing for patients with RA. The intervention did not reduce visit frequency.