electronic health literacy level in nurses working at selected military hospitals in tehran in 2019

Background: electronic health literacy has been considered a public health goal in the present century so that having electronic health literacy is essential to improve healthcare status.objectives: this study aimed to investigate the electronic health literacy level in nurses working at selected military hospitals in tehran in 2019.methods: this was a descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study on 135 nurses in selected military hospitals in tehran selected through a stratified convenience sampling method in 2019. data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and the ehealth literacy scale (eheals) filled in by nurses. the spearman correlation test was used to assess the relationship between research variables and mann-whitney and kruskal-wallis tests were used to compare different groups. data were analyzed using spss-23 at a significance level of 0.05.results: in this study, 135 questionnaires were analyzed. the mean score of the electronic health literacy of nurses was 31.72 ± 5.51. nurses’ electronic health literacy was significantly correlated with age, working hospital, and education level (p < 0.05).conclusions: according to the results, nurses’ electronic health literacy was desirable. also, it seems that continuing education and pursuing higher academic degrees will increase nurses’ electronic health literacy.