Parenting Journal · Volume 3 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
What patients and caregivers want to know when consenting to the use of digital behavioral markers
Originally published 2024-12-06 · NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Nature Publishing Group · DOI 10.1038/s44277-024-00022-9 ↗
AI / system type
AI-derived digital behavioral markers / consent study
Direct parenting evidenceDirectly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.
The AI connection
Examines consent for AI-based computational tools deriving digital behavioral markers from passively collected data.
Why this reading matters
Directly grounds AI consent discussions in adolescents’ and caregivers’ concerns rather than relying on generic adult privacy principles.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
What should a teenager and parent know before AI infers health patterns from everyday data?
Participants’ questions about passive behavioral monitoring bring consent, control, contestability and dignity into AI implementation decisions.
Study context
Forty participants across two urban clinical sites
Age / stage: Adolescent patients and their adult caregivers
Read with three questions
- What information did adolescents and caregivers want about clinical value and accuracy?
- How did data control, privacy and the ability to question an inference feature?
- What actual monitoring outcomes were not evaluated?
Keep the limits in view
The selected adolescent clinical sample and two urban sites limit transferability. Findings identify informational needs, not proof that monitoring is accurate, acceptable in practice or beneficial.
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Anika Sonig; Christine Deeney; Meghan E. Hurley; Eric A. Storch; John Herrington; Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz; Casey J. Zampella; Birkan Tunc; Julia Parish-Morris; Jenny Blumenthal-Barby; Kristin Kostick-Quenet (2024). What patients and caregivers want to know when consenting to the use of digital behavioral markers NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44277-024-00022-9
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