Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
The Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Digital Conversational Agent (Chatbot) for Delivering Parenting Interventions: Systematic Review
Originally published 2024-10-07 · JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
JMIR Publications Inc. · DOI 10.2196/55726 ↗
AI / system type
Mixed AI and rule-based parenting chatbot systematic review
Direct parenting evidenceDirectly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.
The AI connection
Includes AI-supported Entenberg conversational agents and contrasts them with rule-based parenting chatbots.
Why this reading matters
Explicitly distinguishes AI-supported interactive systems from automated text flows and assesses evidence quality.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What evidence should I ask for before relying on a parenting chatbot?
Maps to Collaboration through evaluating conversational support as a route to parenting practice and parent-child relationships.
Study context
Ten studies of chatbot-delivered parenting interventions
Age / stage: Parents of children 0–18 years
Read with three questions
- Which included systems used AI models and which used prewritten flows?
- Why can retention and satisfaction not establish parenting efficacy?
- How did delivery platforms constrain what engagement could be measured?
Keep the limits in view
Heterogeneous small evidence base, inconsistent measures and study quality; no meta-analysis. Most systems are scripted, so conclusions cannot be treated as LLM-specific evidence.
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Max C Klapow; Andrew Rosenblatt; Jamie Lachman; Frances Gardner; Sherif Badawy; Tharun Anand Reddy Sure; Ahmed Hassan; Xiaomeng Ma (2024). The Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Digital Conversational Agent (Chatbot) for Delivering Parenting Interventions: Systematic Review JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. https://doi.org/10.2196/55726
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