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Development, feasibility testing and evaluation of a family-oriented mobile application to promote healthy lifestyle in infants and parents during early life: a mixed methods study

Kai Ting Mok; Daniel Chan; Chengsi Ong; Ming Hui Chiew; Mei Chien Chua; Annabel Ngien; Navin Michael; Varsha Gupta; Jerry Kok Yen Chan; Fabian Yap; Chee Wai Ku; See Ling Loy

Originally published 2026-06-19 · Frontiers in Digital Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1869210 ↗

CollaborationMixed-methods app development and one-month feasibility evaluationCC BY 4.0
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AI / system type

Generative AI/LLM; clinically curated chatbot within app

Direct parenting evidence

Directly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.

The AI connection

JAIME is a ChatGPT-4.0-layered chatbot within a multifeature family app.

Why this reading matters

Combines caregiver and clinician perspectives with a real family-oriented prototype evaluation.

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What would make a family health app useful to both us and our clinicians?

Maps to Collaboration through parent-clinician co-development and family access to shared health information.

Study context

25 analyzed parents and six health-care professionals in Singapore

Age / stage: Parents of infants/early-life children

Read with three questions

  1. Which FamNucleus features support coordination across parents?
  2. How was JAIME’s content constrained and reviewed?
  3. Why do app-level usability scores not establish chatbot-specific or infant health effects?

Keep the limits in view

Small digitally literate, mainly English-speaking and highly educated sample; one-month app evaluation cannot isolate JAIME or establish behavior/metabolic outcomes.

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Kai Ting Mok; Daniel Chan; Chengsi Ong; Ming Hui Chiew; Mei Chien Chua; Annabel Ngien; Navin Michael; Varsha Gupta; Jerry Kok Yen Chan; Fabian Yap; Chee Wai Ku; See Ling Loy (2026). Development, feasibility testing and evaluation of a family-oriented mobile application to promote healthy lifestyle in infants and parents during early life: a mixed methods study Frontiers in Digital Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2026.1869210

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