e-Health and knowledge assessment of students and academic staff recommendations for updating nursing curricula

The purpose was to assess the knowledge of nursing students and academic staff regarding eHealth. The web-based cross-sectional study was conducted using the Google form platform. The sample was the students and academic staff of the Faculty of Health, University of Vlore in Albania. In the final analysis, 145 individuals were included; 128 were women and 17 were men. The average age of the participants was 25.17 years, namely students (77.93%) and academic staff (22.07%). 48.97% of the participants reported that they considered themselves a little informed about eHealth, p=0.001. The most often cited obstacles to the use of eHealth were health professionals' lack of familiarity with and confidence in eHealth tools, patients' lack of interest in and awareness of digital health, or limited access to eHealth resources. Developing a health education module for eHealth that may be incorporated into the nursing curriculum to tailor patient care regimens is recommended.