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AI Role-Play Coaching for Breastfeeding Counseling

NCT07670247 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2026-06-26

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Summary

Breastfeeding counseling is critically important for both maintaining the mother's motivation to breastfeed and ensuring the baby's healthy nutrition. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based role-playing coaching is an innovative teaching approach that allows students to experience the counseling process through digital scenarios, identify and correct their mistakes in a risk-free environment, and receive instant feedback based on their performance. In this context, this study aims to examine the effect of AI-assisted role-playing coaching on breastfeeding counseling skills in nursing students using a randomized controlled experimental design.

The study was conducted in the Nursing Laboratory of a university's Nursing Department between March 2026 and July 2026. Participants were divided into three groups: Peer role-playing group, Classical theoretical training (control) group, and AI-assisted role-playing group. Data were collected using a personal information form, the Self-Efficacy Scale for Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers, and the Breastfeeding Counseling Role-Playing Assessment Rubric. The findings show that the peer role-playing group has a higher ability to establish open, supportive, and empathetic communication with the mother, while the AI-assisted role-playing group has a higher ability to collect, evaluate, and provide feedback on data. Furthermore, breastfeeding self-efficacy was found to be higher in the AI-assisted role-playing group.

The data obtained have the potential to generate evidence for the use of next-generation learning technologies in nursing education and contribute to training graduate nurses ready for clinical practice. It will also provide a scientific basis for developing training strategies aimed at improving the quality of breastfeeding support services.

Conditions

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy
  • Breastfeeding
  • Role Playing

Interventions

OTHER

AI-powered role-playing intervention

The students in this group worked with a Turkish chatbot based on a large language model (such as ChatGPT). The chatbot was positioned as a virtual patient assuming the role of "mother" in the training scenario. Thus, students conducted the counseling session by engaging in a natural dialogue with an AI. By generating context-sensitive responses and providing appropriate reactions to the counseling messages the students sent, the AI enabled students to practice their communication and counseling skills in a realistic setting.

OTHER

Peer role play intervention

In this group, students formed small pairs or trios to act out the scenarios. By taking turns switching roles, they played the role of "mother" one time and the role of "counselor" the next. This allowed them to both practice their counseling skills and view the counseling process from the "mother's" perspective.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-09
Primary Completion
2026-05-04
Completion
2026-06-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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