Correction: Digital Health Program to Support Family Caregivers of Children Undergoing Growth Hormone Therapy: Qualitative Feasibility Study.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/55023.].

Empowering Caregiver Well-Being With the Adhera Caring Digital Program for Family Caregivers of Children Living With Type 1 Diabetes: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.

Background: Caregivers of children living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face multiple challenges that significantly impact their mental health and quality of life. The well-being of caregivers directly affects the management of the child's condition. The Adhera Caring Digital Program (ACDP) is a comprehensive, digitally delivered program, designed to support family caregivers in enhancing self-management and well-being.

Disparate Model Performance and Stability in Machine Learning Clinical Support for Diabetes and Heart Diseases.

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are vital for supporting clinical decision-making in biomedical informatics. However, their predictive performance can vary across demographic groups, often due to the underrepresentation of historically marginalized populations in training datasets. The investigation reveals widespread sex- and age-related inequities in chronic disease datasets and their derived ML models.

Assessing Family Caregivers' Needs for a Digital Intervention to Support Families Affected by Schizophrenia.

Family caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia face significant physical, emotional, and financial challenges, often sacrificing self-care and careers, particularly in low-middle-income families. Despite the benefits of family interventions, barriers like stigma and limited access persist. Mobile health (mHealth) offers a promising alternative by providing tailored psychosocial support, though long-term engagement is challenging.

Data-Driven Assessment of Lung Cancer Patients Using Performance Status and Wearable Device Metrics.

Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounting for 85% of cases. Traditional methods for assessing the clinical status of cancer patients, such as Performance Status (PS), are subjective and may lack consistency across clinicians. Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.

Correction: Stress Reduction in Perioperative Care: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/54049.].

Digital Health Program to Support Family Caregivers of Children Undergoing Growth Hormone Therapy: Qualitative Feasibility Study.

Background: Caregivers of children with growth hormone deficiency often face emotional challenges (eg, stress) associated with their children's health conditions. This psychological burden might affect children's adherence to treatment and hinder their health-related quality of life (HrQoL). This assumption is leading to seriously considering multidimensional clinical approaches to pediatric health conditions where the emotional well-being of caregivers should be accounted for to optimize children's health outcomes.

Stress Reduction in Perioperative Care: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Patients undergoing surgery often experience stress and anxiety, which can increase complications and hinder recovery. Effective management of these psychological factors is key to improving outcomes. Preoperative anxiety is inversely correlated with the amount of information patients receive, but accessible, personalized support remains limited, especially in preoperative settings.

Data-Driven Personalized Care in Lung Cancer: Scoping Review and Clinical Recommendations on Performance Status and Activity Level of Patients With Lung Cancer Using Wearable Devices.

Purpose: Performance status (PS) is a crucial assessment for research and clinical practice in lung cancer (LC), including its usage for the assessment of the suitability and toxicity of treatment or eligibility for clinical trials of patients with LC. These PS assessments are subjective and lead to substantial discrepancies between observers. To improve the objectivity of PS assessments, Electronic Activity Monitoring devices (EAMs) are increasingly used in oncology, but how these devices are used for PS assessments in LC is an issue that remains unclear.

A Smart Digital Health Platform to Enable Monitoring of Quality of Life and Frailty in Older Patients with Cancer: A Mixed-Methods, Feasibility Study Protocol.

Objectives: LifeChamps is an EU Horizon 2020 project that aims to create a digital platform to enable monitoring of health-related quality of life and frailty in patients with cancer over the age of 65. Our primary objective is to assess feasibility, usability, acceptability, fidelity, adherence, and safety parameters when implementing LifeChamps in routine cancer care. Secondary objectives involve evaluating preliminary signals of efficacy and cost-effectiveness indicators.

Accelerating digital health literacy for the treatment of growth disorders: The impact of a massive open online course.

Background: Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a rare disorder characterized by inadequate secretion of growth hormone (GH) from the anterior pituitary gland. One of the challenges in optimizing GH therapy is improving adherence. Using digital interventions may overcome barriers to optimum treatment delivery.

A Scoping Review and a Taxonomy to Assess the Impact of Mobile Apps on Cancer Care Management.

Mobile Health (mHealth) has a great potential to enhance the self-management of cancer patients and survivors. Our study aimed to perform a scoping review to evaluate the impact and trends of mobile application-based interventions on adherence and their effects on health outcomes among the cancer population. In addition, we aimed to develop a taxonomy of mobile-app-based interventions to assist app developers and healthcare researchers in creating future mHealth cancer care solutions.

Monitoring chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases mixing virtual and face-to-face assessments-Results of the digireuma study.

Mobile health technology holds great promise for the clinical management of patients with chronic disease. However, evidence on the implementation of projects involving digital health solutions in rheumatology is scarce. We aimed to study the feasibility of a hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) monitoring strategy for personalized care in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA).

A Digital Health Intervention for Stress and Anxiety Relief in Perioperative Care: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Stress and anxiety are psychophysiological responses commonly experienced by patients during the perioperative process that can increase presurgical and postsurgical complications to a comprehensive and positive recovery. Preventing and intervening in stress and anxiety can help patients achieve positive health and well-being outcomes. Similarly, the provision of education about surgery can be a crucial component and is inversely correlated with preoperative anxiety levels.

An Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Health Solution to Support Clinical Management of Patients With Long COVID-19: Protocol for a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of most health systems around the world, collapsing them and depleting their available health care resources. Fortunately, the development and enforcement of specific public health policies, such as vaccination, mask wearing, and social distancing, among others, has reduced the prevalence and complications associated with COVID-19 in its acute phase. However, the aftermath of the global pandemic has called for an efficient approach to manage patients with long COVID-19.

Digital health for emotional and self-management support of caregivers of children receiving growth hormone treatment: a feasibility study protocol.

Background: Caregivers of children undergoing growth hormone treatment often face stress and stigma. In this regard, family-centered approaches are increasingly considered, wherein caregivers' mental wellbeing is taken into account to optimize children's health-related outcomes and behaviors (e.g.

Adherence to r-hGH Therapy in Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency: Current Perspectives on How Patient-Generated Data Will Transform r-hGH Treatment Towards Integrated Care.

Pediatric growth hormone (GH) deficiency is a licensed indication for replacement therapy with recombinant human growth hormone (r-hGH). Treatment, consisting of daily subcutaneous injections, extends from the time of diagnosis until cessation of linear growth at completion of puberty. Suboptimal adherence to r-hGH therapy is common and has been well documented to substantially impair the growth response and achievement of the optimal goal which is attainment of adult height within the genetic target range.

Breast Cancer Physical Activity Mobile Intervention: Early Findings From a User Experience and Acceptability Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Physical activity (PA) is the most well-established lifestyle factor associated with breast cancer (BC) survival. Even women with advanced BC may benefit from moderate PA. However, most BC symptoms and treatment side effects are barriers to PA.

Digital Health Platform for Emotional and Self-Management Support of Caregivers of Children Receiving Growth Hormone Treatment.

In recent years there has been growing research on the combination of evidence-based behavioral change techniques with mobile-based recommender systems. In this paper, we have focused on understanding the psychological burdens experienced by caregivers of children undergoing growth hormone treatment (GHt) and the perceived barriers to and drivers of the adoption of a digital health solution. This is a mixed-methods formative research study looking into technical acceptance aspects of using digital health for the emotional support of parents of children undergoing GHt.

Description of a Digital Health Platform for Emotional and Self-Management Support of Caregivers of Children Receiving Growth Hormone Treatment.

In this demo, we provide an overview of the digital platform ADHERA CARING which has been used for an intervention designed for emotional and self-management support of caregivers of children receiving growth hormone treatment (GHt). ADHERA CARING provides tailored emotional and self-management support to caregivers of children undergoing GHt to improve adherence to treatment through positive education, personalized motivational messages, and emotional support. This digital intervention has already been piloted in a clinical setting as part of an ongoing feasibility clinical study (NCT04812665).

Adherence to Growth Hormone Treatment Using a Connected Device in Latin America: Real-World Exploratory Descriptive Analysis Study.

Background: Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) therapy is an effective treatment for children with growth disorders. However, poor outcomes are often associated with suboptimal adherence to treatment.

Objective: The easypod connected injection device records and transmits injection settings and dose data from patients receiving rhGH.

The Pandemic, Infodemic, and People's Resilience in India: Viewpoint.

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused widespread fear and stress. The pandemic has affected everyone, everywhere, and created systemic inequities, leaving no one behind. In India alone, more than 34,094,373 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 452,454 related deaths have been reported as of October 19, 2021.

Digital Health for Supporting Precision Medicine in Pediatric Endocrine Disorders: Opportunities for Improved Patient Care.

Digitalization of healthcare delivery is rapidly fostering development of precision medicine. Multiple digital technologies, known as telehealth or eHealth tools, are guiding individualized diagnosis and treatment for patients, and can contribute significantly to the objectives of precision medicine. From a basis of "one-size-fits-all" healthcare, precision medicine provides a paradigm shift to deliver a more nuanced and personalized approach.