AI coach for future nurses: can ChatGPT sharpen clinical thinking?
NCT ID NCT07767695
First seen Aug 17, 2026 · Last updated Aug 19, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This trial tests whether ChatGPT-supported feedback can boost nursing students' metacognitive awareness and self-regulated learning during clinical practice. Fourth-year nursing students are randomly assigned to receive either ChatGPT-generated reflective prompts or traditional instructor feedback. The study measures changes in students' ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own learning over six weeks.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- ChatGPT-supported metacognitive feedback
- What this could lead to
- If effective, this approach could become a standard tool in nursing education to enhance students' clinical reasoning and self-regulated learning.
- What could go wrong
- The trial is relatively small and focuses on a specific student group, so results may not generalize. The intervention depends on ChatGPT's responses, which may vary in quality.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 106 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Aug 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * Being a fourth-year nursing student at Ege University Faculty of Nursing during the 2025-2026 academic year * Actively participating in clinical practice during the study period * Voluntarily agreeing to participate in the study and providing informed consent * Agreeing to participate in the ChatGPT-supported metacognitive feedback process if assigned to the intervention group Exclusion Criteria: * Withdrawing from the study at any time * Incomplete or incorrectly completed pretest or posttest assessments * Failure to participate regularly in the intervention process, including failure to complete the learning plan and reflective evaluations in the intervention group * Having a serious health, psychological, or cognitive condition that may affect clinical practice or learning behaviors, based on self-report
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