JMIR Formative Research

Physicians’ perceived compensation satisfaction enhances work enthusiasm, ensures health care system stability, and inspires health care quality. However, few studies have investigated the combined effect of multiple influencing factors on this perception.

Loneliness is a form of psychological distress associated with increased risk of depression, anxiety, and adverse health outcomes across the life span. This study evaluates an online gaming‑based community intervention that combines professionally facilitated groups, commercial video games, and skills‑focused workshops for adults who play video games.

Despite a 40-year prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) the acquired im-munodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic prevails. Effective AIDS treatment requires spe-cialist care and high adherence often hindered by structural issues in care access. Innovative eHealth solutions like a treatment-supportive mobile applications, can help address these is-sues. Successful implementation depends on user acceptance. Acceptance can be opera-tionalized as behavioral intention and measured through the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT).

Effective diabetes management requires individualized treatment strategies tailored to patients’ clinical characteristics. With recent advances in artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to enhance clinical decision support, particularly in generating personalized recommendations.

This cross-sectional study examined presence of food stores and availability of fruits/vegetables in food stores with weight among urban public housing residents; while there was no association between average number of fruits/vegetables in food stores and weight, there were positive associations between number of convenience stores and weight and between number of general merchandise stores and weight.

Effective pain management is a cornerstone of cancer palliative care, yet it remains challenging in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to limited resources, regulatory constraints, and a lack of objective tools. While wearable technologies offer promise for augmenting pain-related patient-reported outcomes (PROs) with physiological data, their usability in LMIC palliative settings is underexplored.

Maternal evaluation during routine antenatal care visits may reduce maternal morbidity and mortality by identifying and addressing issues early on. A health recommender system could help health professionals and pregnant women monitor daily health parameters, provide tailored recommendations, and support timely antenatal care.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a proven and effective tool for preventing several types of cancers, yet vaccination rates among young adults remain suboptimal, particularly among those not enrolled in 4-year colleges. This population can be more difficult to reach due to fewer established institutional touchpoints, limited engagement with campus-based health services, and greater variability in access to preventive care. At the same time, social media has become a dominant source of information for young adults, with TikTok (ByteDance) emerging as one of the most widely used platforms. Approximately 41% of TikTok’s users are between the ages of 16 and 24 years, making it a potentially important channel for public health communication. However, little is known about how noncollege young adults perceive HPV-related content on TikTok, or how influencers themselves view their role in communicating about vaccination.

Early detection in primary care could improve pancreatic cancer survival, but diagnosis is often delayed due to the low prevalence of the disease, the nonspecific nature of early symptoms, and the broad range of conditions and volume of consultations managed by general practitioners (GPs). In Australia, improving pancreatic cancer outcomes, including via earlier diagnosis, is a priority being progressed under the National Pancreatic Cancer Roadmap developed by Cancer Australia. Computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have shown promise in aiding timely cancer diagnosis; however, barriers to adopting CDSS such as mistrust of the recommendations or not being embedded in the clinical workflow remain. Simulation techniques, which offer flexible and cost-effective ways to evaluate digital health interventions, can be used to test CDSS before real-world implementation.

Falls are a leading cause of injury among older adults, often resulting from dynamic balance disturbances. It is influenced by a complex interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic fall risk factors. To identify individual fall risk, it is important to understand the underlying associations.

Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) - referred to as registered dietitians (RDs) in Japan - contribute to disease management, prevention of complications, and improvement of quality of life (QOL) through individualized nutritional guidance. However, these techniques often rely on individual experience, leading to variations in quality. The Nutrition Care Process (NCP) provides a standardized framework for nutritional care, but the specific techniques used in clinical practice and their interrelationships remain unclear. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a method that visualizes and hierarchically organizes interrelationships among multiple elements, making it useful for structuring complex practical skills. Clarifying the structure of nutritional guidance techniques may therefore support the standardization of practice and the development of educational frameworks.

Hispanic youth in the United States have the highest rates of pediatric obesity and do not often meet national guidelines for physical activity and dietary intake. Family-based interventions can improve health outcomes in both youth and their parents and are highly relevant to Hispanics due to the cultural value of familismo (familism). However, few existing family-based obesity prevention interventions for Hispanics target adolescents and their parents, and those that do are not designed to facilitate widespread reach.