Integrating AI-Assisted Design Thinking Into Nursing Education
Integrating Design Thinking Into Undergraduate Nursing Education to Nurture Empathy and Enhance Empathetic Communication: a Wait List RCT
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether an AI-assisted design thinking workshop can improve empathetic communication in undergraduate nursing students at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Does the workshop improve students' empathy, creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and patient-centred care attitudes?
How do students experience the design thinking and AI-supported learning activities?
Researchers will compare the intervention group with a wait-list control group to see whether the workshop leads to better outcomes.
Participants will:
complete a baseline questionnaire before the workshop;
be randomly assigned to receive the workshop now or later;
attend two tutorials in the intervention group, including design thinking activities and AI-simulated clinical scenarios;
complete a follow-up questionnaire after the workshop;
and, for some participants, join a short interview about their learning experience.
調査の概要
詳細な説明
研究の種類
入学 (推定)
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究連絡先
- 名前:Carmen WH Chan, PhD
- 電話番号:+852 39436218
- メール:whchan@cuhk.edu.hk
研究連絡先のバックアップ
- 名前:Khanh Thi Nguyen, PhD
- 電話番号:+852 39435120
- メール:khanhnguyen@cuhk.edu.hk
研究場所
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Hong Kong、香港
- The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
- 子
- 大人
- 高齢者
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- Undergraduate nursing students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing programme at CUHK Nethersole School of Nursing.
- Enrolled in the NURS 3127 course during the 2026-27 academic year.
- Willing and able to provide verbal informed consent and participate voluntarily in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Students with prior participation in design-thinking workshops.
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的:他の
- 割り当て:ランダム化
- 介入モデル:並列代入
- マスキング:独身
武器と介入
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実験的:Intervention Group
The intervention arm will receive an AI-assisted design thinking workshop aimed at strengthening empathetic communication in nursing education.
The workshop includes two structured tutorials: the first introduces the design thinking process through activities such as empathy mapping, patient journey mapping, "How Might We" framing, and rapid paper prototyping based on real clinical communication challenges.
The second tutorial uses a customized conversational AI chatbot to simulate patient scenarios, allowing students to practice responses in a safe learning environment.
During the session, tutors will rotate among groups to provide small-group guidance, feedback, and debriefing.
The intervention is intended to help students build empathy, creative thinking, collaboration, and patient-centred communication skills.
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This intervention is distinct because it combines design thinking with a conversational AI chatbot to teach empathy in undergraduate nursing education.
Rather than using lectures or standard simulation alone, it places students in an active, human-centred learning process that begins with empathy mapping and patient journey mapping, then moves to ideation, prototyping, and reflection.
The chatbot provides realistic, bilingual clinical communication scenarios and immediate tailored feedback, including difficult situations such as breaking bad news, managing non-compliance, and responding to emotional or culturally complex encounters.
The workshop is also developed through co-design with faculty and students, making the intervention closely aligned with actual learning needs and course context.
In addition, the study uses a wait-list randomized controlled design, allowing comparison with usual learning while ensuring all students can eventually receive the workshop.
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他の:Wait-list control group
The wait-list control group will complete the same baseline and follow-up questionnaires as the intervention group but will not receive the workshop during the main study period.
Instead, they will continue with their usual learning activities and will be offered the AI-assisted design thinking workshop after the study data collection is completed.
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This intervention is distinct because it combines design thinking with a conversational AI chatbot to teach empathy in undergraduate nursing education.
Rather than using lectures or standard simulation alone, it places students in an active, human-centred learning process that begins with empathy mapping and patient journey mapping, then moves to ideation, prototyping, and reflection.
The chatbot provides realistic, bilingual clinical communication scenarios and immediate tailored feedback, including difficult situations such as breaking bad news, managing non-compliance, and responding to emotional or culturally complex encounters.
The workshop is also developed through co-design with faculty and students, making the intervention closely aligned with actual learning needs and course context.
In addition, the study uses a wait-list randomized controlled design, allowing comparison with usual learning while ensuring all students can eventually receive the workshop.
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Empathy
時間枠:The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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Empathy will be measured with the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Professions Student Version (JSE-HPS) which yields total scores ranging from 20 to 140; higher scores indicate greater empathy.
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The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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二次結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Creativity, collaboration, problem-solving
時間枠:The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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Creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving will be measured with the Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ).
Each domain comprises two items rated on a 5-point Likert scale.
The mean score for each domain will range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater perceived creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving ability.
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The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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Patient-centred care attitudes
時間枠:The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment. .
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Patient-centred care attitudes will be measured using the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS), an 18-item instrument comprising the sharing and caring subscales.
Items are rated on a 6-point Likert scale, and the overall score will be calculated as the mean of all item scores, ranging from 1 to 6. Higher scores indicate more patient-centred care attitudes.
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The baseline assessment will be completed one week before the workshop. The post-intervention assessment will be completed within one week after the second tutorial at 12 weeks from enrollment. .
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Experiences and views on the workshop
時間枠:After intervention, at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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Evaluate by semi-structured interviews on the Intervention group
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After intervention, at 12 weeks from enrollment.
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協力者と研究者
捜査官
- 主任研究者:Carmen WH Chan, PhD、The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
研究記録日
主要日程の研究
研究開始 (推定)
一次修了 (推定)
研究の完了 (推定)
試験登録日
最初に提出
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最終確認日
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本研究に関する用語
その他の研究ID番号
- TDLEG_496_PR
- SBRE-25-1206 (その他の識別子:Survey and Behavioral Research Ethics)
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