Educational technologies for pressure injury prevention in Latin America

Pressure injuries remain frequent in hospitals, and educating staff, students and caregivers is a core prevention measure. This narrative review mapped digital and game-based educational technologies for pressure injury prevention developed, validated or evaluated in Latin America between 2013 and 2025, and summarised the evidence of learning or clinical effect they report. The review included 29 studies, 26 of them from Brazil and one each from Argentina, Colombia and Peru. They described 11 online courses or web resources, 11 apps, 4 games and 3 videos. Development or expert validation was the only content reported in 16 studies, 3 reported usability, 4 reported satisfaction or perceived impact, 4 measured knowledge before and after the intervention, and 2 reported a clinical indicator. No study used a concurrent control group. Knowledge scores rose in the four pre-post studies, although one reported no change in lesion assessment items, and the clinical results diverged, with a non-significant fall in injury occurrence in a Brazilian online course and a larger fall in an Argentine multicomponent programme that included a smartphone app. Latin American work on this topic is abundant in development and content validation and scarce in controlled evaluation. Future studies should measure injury incidence or practice compliance against a comparison group.