Table 2. Study inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Category	Inclusion	Exclusion	Rationale
Intended mobile app beneficiaries	Neonates, premature infants, and/or medically complex infants requiring NICU admission	Healthy newborns born full term; late preterm newborns not requiring NICU admission; fetal/prenatal health; pregnant patients	Focus on newborns; include medical complexity, prematurity
Intended mobile app users	Parents, caregivers	Health care providers (e.g., physicians, trainees, nurses)	Focus on parents and caregivers and the critical transition period from NICU to home
Concept	Mobile phone/cellular device/smartphone applications	Websites; artificial intelligence; telehealth/telemedicine	Specific interest in novel mobile applications accessible to parents, caregivers
Context	Use of mobile applications to support parental education in the NICU	Studies without use of mobile applications; labor and delivery units, PICU, other pediatric care facilities	NICU stay and transition period to home are particularly vulnerable, challenging for new parents
Language	English	All other languages	Language capacities of the team

NICU, neonatal intensive care unit; PICU, pediatric intensive care unit.