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Real-World Data From a Group Parent Management Training Program Enhanced Using Artificial Intelligence: Qualitative Study

Carlos Felipe Rivera-Cepeda; Blanca S Pineda; Daniella Vaclavik; Daniel M Bagner; Antonio Y Hardan; Andrea Abadi; Karin Mostovoy; Eduardo L Bunge; Ivan Steenstra; Amaryllis Mavragani; Yexinyu Yang

Originally published 2026-04-07 · JMIR Formative Research
JMIR Publications Inc. · DOI 10.2196/91841 ↗

CollaborationQualitative analysis of real-world hybrid parenting programCC BY 4.0
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AI / system type

Generative AI/LLM; RAG and therapist-supervised PMT

Direct parenting evidence

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

The AI connection

Pat uses retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails and therapist review within parent management training.

Why this reading matters

Provides concrete caregiver accounts of a human-AI delivery model and its limitations.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

What help should come from a chatbot and what should stay with our human therapist?

Maps to Collaboration through maintaining therapist oversight while parents obtain between-session support.

Study context

88 caregivers in Argentina and Paraguay receiving eight weekly therapist-led sessions plus Pat

Age / stage: Children 3–14 years; caregivers 34–65

Read with three questions

  1. What did parents value about Pat’s availability?
  2. How did clinicians supervise the AI-supported program?
  3. Why are perceived contribution percentages not causal estimates?

Keep the limits in view

Self-report without a control or pre/post child-behavior assessment; selected digitally connected sample. Same 88-caregiver dataset as PMC13488916.

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Carlos Felipe Rivera-Cepeda; Blanca S Pineda; Daniella Vaclavik; Daniel M Bagner; Antonio Y Hardan; Andrea Abadi; Karin Mostovoy; Eduardo L Bunge; Ivan Steenstra; Amaryllis Mavragani; Yexinyu Yang (2026). Real-World Data From a Group Parent Management Training Program Enhanced Using Artificial Intelligence: Qualitative Study JMIR Formative Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/91841

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