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Adolescent Engagement With a Multicomponent mHealth Tool: Identifying Usage Patterns, Determinants, and Health Behavior Change in an Intervention Trial

Adolescent Engagement With a Multicomponent mHealth Tool: Identifying Usage Patterns, Determinants, and Health Behavior Change in an Intervention Trial

Following statistics from Western countries, between 93% and 98% of teens aged 12-17 years own a smartphone [6-8]. In Flanders, Belgium, 96% of adolescents use their smartphone more than an hour, and 45% even more than 4 hours on days without school [9]. The integration of smartphones in adolescents’ daily life may facilitate the adoption of a health app. Nevertheless, it remains a challenge to get adolescents to initiate and sustain engagement with digital health interventions.

Carmen Peuters, Ann DeSmet, Laura Maenhout, Greet Cardon, Dries Debeer, Geert Crombez

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2025;13:e59041

Payors, Caregivers, and Teens: Aligning Priorities for Effective Digital Mental Health Tools

Payors, Caregivers, and Teens: Aligning Priorities for Effective Digital Mental Health Tools

Caregivers and teens value safety, privacy, expert validation, and meaningful engagement, with teens particularly emphasizing autonomy, connectedness, and immediate support over traditional clinical measures [3-5]. Understanding and addressing competing priorities is essential to designing and implementing scalable DMH tools for teens and their families that can be integrated into a complex mental health care setting.

Jennifer Huberty, Jacqlyn Yourell, Lara Baez, Louisa Salhi

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e72587

Virtual Reality for the Prevention and Cessation of Nicotine Vaping in Youths: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Virtual Reality for the Prevention and Cessation of Nicotine Vaping in Youths: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Several intervention approaches have been developed and tested with older adolescents, such as text messaging [9], contingency management [10], and social media approaches [11], but few studies have tested vaping interventions for high school-aged teens [12].

Belinda Borrelli, Daniel Weinstein, Romano Endrighi, Nikki Ling, Kathleen Koval, Lisa M Quintiliani, Kaitlyn Konieczny

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e71961

Teen Perspectives on Integrating Digital Mental Health Programs for Teens Into Public Libraries (“I Was Always at the Library”): Qualitative Interview Study

Teen Perspectives on Integrating Digital Mental Health Programs for Teens Into Public Libraries (“I Was Always at the Library”): Qualitative Interview Study

Libraries are also seen as a safe space for teens with marginalized identities, including historically underserved racial and ethnic minority (HURE) teens; teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+); teens living in lower-resourced and disinvested areas; and teens living with mental health conditions [15,16,18,22-27]. Unsurprisingly, the teen mental health crisis is visible in public libraries.

Ashley A Knapp, Katherine Cohen, Kaylee P Kruzan, Rachel Kornfield, Miguel Herrera, Aderonke B Pederson, Sydney Lee, Kathryn Macapagal, Chantelle A Roulston, Kaleigh Clarke, Clarisa Wijaya, Robert Simmons, Latonia Jackson, Simrandeep Kour, Sandra Franco, David C Mohr

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e67454

Digital Mental Health Screening, Feedback, and Referral System for Teens With Socially Complex Needs: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Integrating the Teen Assess, Check, and Heal System into Pediatric Primary Care

Digital Mental Health Screening, Feedback, and Referral System for Teens With Socially Complex Needs: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Integrating the Teen Assess, Check, and Heal System into Pediatric Primary Care

Teens with socially complex needs have multiple barriers placed between them and mental health care, which the current system is failing to address [9-15]. As such, traditional methods for reaching such teens are not working, resulting in life-long health disparities and a significant public health impact [2,6,7,16,17]. Pediatric primary care (PPC) is one setting with strong potential as an environment to engage and screen teens with socially complex needs.

Colleen Stiles-Shields, Gabriella Bobadilla, Karen Reyes, Erika L Gustafson, Matthew Lowther, Dale L Smith, Charles Frisbie, Camilla Antognini, Grace Dyer, Rae MacCarthy, Nicolò Martinengo, Guy Morris, Alissa Touranachun, Kimberlee M Wilkens, Wrenetha A Julion, Niranjan S Karnik

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e65245