Kim and Lee [Phys. Rev. D 63 (2001) 064014] studied charged wormholes and Morris–Thorne wormholes in the presence of scalar field using the concepts of general relativity. In this paper, we have also considered same wormholes affected with electric charge and scalar field and extended their study using the framework of [Formula: see text] gravity with [Formula: see text] gravity model, where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are constants. We have examined the possibility for minimization of the amount of exotic matter through energy conditions. Further, we have obtained the deflection angle, an important notion in gravitational lensing, by using strong field limit coefficients which may be helpful in the detection of wormholes.