Abstract: Objective: To explore the experience of maternal and infant care professionals in using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), and provide reference for the standardized and reasonable use of GAI by maternal and infant care professionals. Methods: A purposive sampling method was adopted to select 16 maternal and infant care professionals from a tertiary grade A hospital in Beijing as research subjects from March to May 2024. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: The experience of maternal and infant care professionals in using GAI can be summarized into three themes: the sense of positive effects of use (assisting in creative work, efficiently providing rich maternal and infant medical information, driving the enhancement of professional strengths and comprehensive quality); constraints of use (demand driven willingness to use, doubts about authenticity and professionalism, concerns about privacy and security issues, excessive dependence and weakened ability to think independently, insufficient popularity and support, actual effect experience affecting the depth of use); needs and expectations for use (conducting relevant training, maternal and infant personnel participating in professional GAI development and improvement, reform of maternal and infant care personnel training). Conclusion: It is necessary to guide maternal and infant personnel establish appropriate use concepts and break down information cocoon. At the same time, multi-disciplinary forces should be integrated into the development and training process of GAI, prevent technical risks, so that GAI can become a reasonable assistant for maternal and infant care work and for serving maternal and infant health.

Key words: Generative Artificial Intelligence; maternal and infant care professional; experience; qualitative study