Introduction: Mental health stigma and reduced psychological well-being are important recovery-related concerns among people living with serious mental illness. Nurse-facilitated digital psychoeducation may provide a private and accessible adjunct to psychiatric nursing care.
Aim: To examine whether an eight-week nurse-facilitated artificial intelligence chatbot program (NurseBot) was associated with favorable changes in psychological well-being and perceived stigma categories among adults with schizophrenia, depression, or bipolar disorder.
Method: A quasi-experimental two-group pre-test/post-test design was used with 72 psychiatric service users in Egypt. Participants were allocated to an intervention group (n = 36) or a control group (n = 36). The intervention group used NurseBot for three 15–20-minute sessions weekly for eight weeks, while the control group received standard psychiatric care. The primary outcome was improvement in the overall psychological well-being category, and the secondary outcome was improvement in the perceived stigma category. Between-group differences in ordinal change were examined using the Mann-Whitney U test, with rank-biserial correlation as the effect size.