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Empathy Training for Healthcare Professional Students
Sponsor: Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Summary
This study aims to examine the effects of a newly developed training program on the empathy of healthcare students. The objectives are: (i) designing and implementing an User Interface (UI) using Unity featuring 3D virtual clients representing individuals with physical disabilities, bodily discomforts, and psychosocial disturbances, paired with a chatbot interface for interactive questions-and-answers; (ii) developing a brief empathy training program incorporating AI-generated virtual clients into traditional teaching methods, including didactic lectures, skills rehearsal, mindfulness-based training, and practice with AI-generated virtual clients; and (iii) assessing the impact of this training program on the empathetic attitude, empathetic communication skills, and cognitive flexibility of healthcare students.
Official title: Empathy Training for Healthcare Students Through Combined Didactic, Practical and AI-based Methods
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
108
Start Date
2026-02
Completion Date
2026-12
Last Updated
2026-01-06
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Empathy training
Participants in the intervention group will undertake two sessions, each lasting four hours, of empathy training over a one-week period with group size of 6 to 8 participants. The empathy training will base on our newly developed protocol, including: (i) didactic lectures; (ii) practical skills demonstration and role-play, (iii) a mindfulness-based training; and (iv) practice of empathic skills in two different randomly selected scenarios with feedback from the AI system. Each participants will encounter different scenarios that simulate diverse clinical challenges.
Locations (1)
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong