Facilitating Communication With Children and Young Adults With Special Health Care Needs Through a Web-Based Application: Qualitative Descriptive Study
Children and young adults with special health care needs require medical services that their peers generally do not, thereby compounding potential barriers in communication surrounding health care delivery. Using social stories geared toward health care interactions may help reduce anxiety and difficulty.
Authors
- M. Basel Al Mourad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8431-9037)
- Kyle T. Formella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4202-7060)
- Jessica R Hanks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0544-3191)
- Matthew Mischler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4224-384X)
- Ryan M. Klute (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-8979)
- Divya Krishnakumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7228-7675)
- Yoon-Je Cho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9641-8572)
- Ashley M. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-3396)
- C. Flynn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0858-7571)
- Sohana Sultana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6175-4519)
- Allison Wallenfang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6215-6556)
Institutions
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Illinois College (US)
- OSF Saint Francis Medical Center (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- OSF HealthCare (US)
- Peoria campus of the University of Illinois System (US)
- MetroHealth Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
- Published
- 2025-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/76512
- Primary Topic
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00