Uso de herramientas digitales en educación para la salud en poblaciones vulnerables: Revisión de alcance

Objective: Identify the use of digital health education tools for vulnerable populations. Methods: A scoping review of publications related to the use of digital tools in health education for vulnerable populations. Three stages were developed: 1. Search in Pubmed, Scopus, and BVS da-tabases, 2010 to 2020. 2. Review of titles and abstracts according to the inclusion criteria. Critical reading by the EQUATOR Network guidelines, using checklists according to type of study, in total 19 articles were included. 3. Construction of a matrix in Excel for the systematization of information. Results: The majority of the included articles are published in journals classified as Q1 (63.2 %), with an average impact factor of 0.95, published in 2020 (26.3 %), of a quasi-experimental type (47.4 %). Regarding the digital tool, characteristics such as pedagogy used, associated name, technological environment, training for its use, and cost are identified. Conclusion: Digital tools are used in health education in different population groups, prioritizing topics such as chronic non-communicable diseases, transmitted by vectors, HIV prevention, and risk factors in perinatal maternal health, all of which require access to the Internet. These have contribu-ted to informing people, however, they highlight the importance of involving the family, generating culturally adapted pedagogical strategies that respond to the health needs of their population, and continue developing studies that show the impact of these technological tools and their usability.