Patient empowerment is seen as the capability to understand health information and make decisions based on it. It is a competence that can improve self-care, adherence and overall health. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for information and has also reduced the number of visits to health centers. Nurses have had to adapt in order to continue offering quality care in different environments such as the digital world, but this entails assessing the level of their patients’ empowerment and adapting material and educational messages to new realities. The aim of this study is, on the one hand, to assess nurses’ use of digital resources to provide reinforcing information to their patients and, on the other hand, to evaluate how they assess the level of empowerment of their patients. To perform the study, 850 nurses answered 21 questions related to their own digital literacy and patients’ empowerment. The ability to make decisions is the characteristic most selected by nurses (70%) as useful in measuring patient empowerment, whereas 9.19% do not measure it in any way. Printed material is most often used by nurses to offer additional information to patients (71.93%), mobile applications are the least used option (21.58%), and elder nurses are those who most recommend digital resources. In this study, younger nurses make little or no use of technology as a resource for training and monitoring patients. In spite of some limitations concerning the study, digital health needs to be promoted as an indisputable tool in the nurse’s briefcase in the future to ensure that older patients can manage electronic resources in different fields.

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评估患者授权和护士对数字策略的使用：eSurvey 研究

患者赋权被视为理解健康信息并据此做出决策的能力。这是一种可以改善自我保健、依从性和整体健康状况的能力。COVID-19 大流行增加了对信息的需求，也减少了到医疗中心的就诊次数。护士必须适应以继续在不同环境（例如数字世界）中提供优质护理，但这需要评估患者赋权的水平，并使材料和教育信息适应新的现实。本研究的目的一方面是评估护士使用数字资源为患者提供强化信息的情况，另一方面是评估他们如何评估患者的授权水平。为了进行研究，850 名护士回答了与自身数字素养和患者赋权相关的 21 个问题。决策能力是护士 (70%) 选择最多的特征，用于衡量患者授权，而 9.19% 的人没有以任何方式衡量它。护士最常使用印刷材料向患者提供额外信息（71.93%），移动应用程序是最少使用的选项（21.58%），而老年护士是最推荐数字资源的人。在这项研究中，年轻护士很少或根本不使用技术作为培训和监测患者的资源。尽管该研究存在一些局限性，但未来仍需将数字健康推广为护士公文包中的一个无可争议的工具，以确保老年患者可以管理不同领域的电子资源。