JMIR Human Factors

Chronic pain is a widespread condition that impairs quality of life and is often managed primarily with medications. National guidelines now recommend nonpharmacologic, mind-and-body, and behavioral approaches as first-line or complementary treatments. However, access to these evidence-based options remains limited. Digital health technologies offer a scalable way to deliver integrative, self-care interventions that empower patients to live well with pain.

Digital well-being support tools can offer adolescents tailored interventions embedded in their digital environments. However, there is a lack of high-quality, evidence-based digital interventions specifically designed for young people’s well-being needs. Wellby is a mobile app and wearable device cocreated with Irish secondary school students to support stress management and overall well-being.

Centralized electronic surveillance systems are widely used in intensive care settings to support continuous physiological monitoring and patient safety. Failures in health information technology (HIT) infrastructure can disrupt workflows, reduce situational awareness, and create latent risks for serious harm. Understanding such events requires analytic approaches that go beyond single-classification frameworks.

Informal caregivers (ICs), often family members or close friends, provide essential support to individuals with head and neck cancer. However, they are frequently unprepared for the emotional, practical, and medical challenges involved. Web-based applications offer promising opportunities to support ICs, but their long-term adoption and acceptance remain uncertain.

Social media is one of the most accessible and extensive sources of data for tracking and understanding public reactions to COVID-19 policies. Cultural differences between the United States and Japan have resulted in highly distinctive policies and public reactions in each country.

Electronic health records (EHRs) play an essential role in modern health care, enabling data sharing and improving patient safety; however, even though vendors must adhere to International Organization for Standardization–related usability standards for EHR certification, persistent usability issues continue to undermine efficiency, contribute to clinician burden, and increase the risk of preventable errors.

Anonymous, 24/7 digital peer support (DPS) offers a scalable solution to support employees’ emotional well-being. Understanding sociobehavioral factors, such as timing of engagement and the impact of shared resources, can help employers and employee assistance programs (EAPs) integrate digital tools to better support workforce well-being.

Informal caregivers of people living with chronic kidney disease commonly experience mental health difficulties. However, there is currently limited access to scalable psychological interventions such as those using e-mental health platforms. Furthermore, there is an absence of such interventions tailored for this group of caregivers, which may limit acceptability.

Competency-based medical education (CBME) in India emphasizes early competency formation, higher-order cognitive processing, and self-directed learning. Although e-learning is widely adopted, there is limited evidence on structured e-modules explicitly designed using Bloom taxonomy and the Miller pyramid for Indian MBBS students.

Chatbots are increasingly deployed across various domains; however, systematic evaluation of their usability remains limited, particularly in non-Western contexts. The 11-item Chatbot Usability Scale (BUS-11), a multidimensional instrument grounded in human-computer interaction theory, has demonstrated strong psychometric properties in prior studies; however, a validated Chinese version does not exist, despite China being one of the largest chatbot markets.

While patient health records (PHRs) are becoming ubiquitous, nationwide evidence on the drivers of user satisfaction in the United Kingdom remains scarce.

Sleep is essential for overall health and well-being, but assessing sleep architecture is often costly and time-consuming, relying primarily on polysomnography (PSG). While wrist-worn wearables offer alternatives, they face limitations regarding user compliance, such as battery charging and physical discomfort. Nearable devices address these burdens, but they regularly lack rigorous validation, especially in real-world settings.