Peer-reviewed article
Opportunities, challenges, and ethical implications of online pediatric nutrition consultation: a nursing perspective.
Ma LL, Wang KX ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This article examines online nutrition consultation services for children, highlighting both opportunities and challenges in digital healthcare delivery. The authors identify technical barriers like the digital divide, professional practice limitations in remote assessment, and ethical concerns around privacy and equity. They apply a nursing ethics framework to analyze these issues and propose strategies including ethics-guided practice, technology standardization, professional training, and supportive policies to ensure safe and equitable care.
Key points
- Online pediatric nutrition consultation offers potential to improve accessibility and efficiency of nutrition services
- Technical barriers including the digital divide limit remote assessment capabilities
- Professional practice challenges include constrained communication and inadequate adaptation of clinical tools for remote settings
- Ethical concerns relate to privacy, accountability, and equity in digital healthcare delivery
- Proposed solutions include ethics-guided practice, technological standardization, professional competency development, and supportive policy frameworks
Limitations
This is a perspective article that analyzes challenges conceptually rather than presenting empirical evidence from implementation or evaluation. The document does not identify which countries or regions are affected, nor does it provide data on outcomes or effectiveness of online nutrition consultation models.
Abstract
Against the backdrop of rapid global expansion in digital healthcare and growing demand for child nutrition services, this perspective article examines the emerging model of online pediatric nutrition consultation. We argue that while this model offers significant potential to improve accessibility and efficiency, it faces multidimensional challenges. These include technical barriers such as the digital divide and limitations in remote assessment; professional practice issues like constrained communication and inadequate adaptation of clinical tools; and ethical complexities related to privacy, accountability, and equity. To support its responsible development, this perspective article applies a nursing ethics framework-centered on autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice-to analyze these challenges. We further propose integrated strategies focusing on ethics-guided practice, technological standardization, professional competency development, and supportive policy ecosystems to ensure that innovation aligns with safe, equitable, and person-centered care.