Chatbot Facilitated Education on Child and Adolescent Abuse

Tzu Chi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Abuse

Treatments: Other: lecture-based teaching; Other: chatbot facilitated teaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06167031

IRB112-148-B

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of chatbot-facilitated education (CFE) in assisting nursing personnel to prevent child and adolescent abuse and neglect (CAN). The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does applying CFE enhance nurses' intention to report CAN?
2. Does applying CFE improve nurses' attitudes toward reporting CAN?
3. Does applying CFE increase nurses' knowledge of CAN?

Researchers will compare CFE to lecture-based teaching to verify if CFE can improve the nurses' competency of CAN.

Participants will:

1. Attend a CAN course for about 1.5 hours. The experimental group will use CFE, and the control group will only receive lecture-based teaching.
2. Have the CAN course, comprised of two main subjects: "CAN" and "Nurses' Roles and Functions in CAN".
3. Receive the learning effect assessment at three different time points: before the course, one week after, and four weeks after.

Full description

Based on the rigor of the study and the anticipated benefits to the participants, we will:

1. Commence participant enrollment only after the protocol has been reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation.
2. Conduct a minimum of four courses until the participant group reaches full capacity.
3. Ensure that participants are not informed about the specific interventions of the course at the time of their enrollment.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Nurses who

1. work in Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
2. finish the probationary period, directly do the practical care
3. want to participate and sign the consent

Exclusion criteria

The nurses will be excluded if they are in an administrative position or withdraw the protocol for any reason.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Chatbot-facilitated education Group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will receive a lecture on the CAN course with assistance from a chatbot. The instructor will pose questions to the participants, who will respond using the chatbot.

Treatment:

Other: chatbot facilitated teaching

Lecture-based teaching Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The participants will only receive a lecture on the CAN course.

Treatment:

Other: lecture-based teaching