The Health anxiety and its relationship with academic performance and learning style in nursing students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Supervisor:

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Abstract: Mental health is one of the essential dimensions of health in nursing students as future nurses caring for patients. Due to the stressful environment of clinical and theoretical education, nursing students are very susceptible to psychiatric disorders such as somatoform disorder. Health anxiety causes mental employment and consequently unnecessary use of health services, increasing costs and reducing individual performance such as academic performance and learning issues. On the other hand, learning is the basis of academic performance as a prominent aspect of education in nursing students. The aim of this study was to determine health anxiety and its relationship with academic performance and learning style in nursing students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2020-2021. Method: The present study was a descriptive correlation in which 365 nursing students were included in the study using stratified random sampling. In this study, three questionnaires of social demographic characteristics, Salkosakis and Warwick health anxiety questionnaire and Warwick learning style questionnaire were used and data were collected from winter 2022 to spring 2022. Results: The results of this study showed that the mean of health anxiety among nursing students was 9.79± 24.33 from the range of score of 0-54 and their preferred learning style was kinetic-motor style. Health anxiety had a significant relationship with academic performance (p≤0.05. On the other hand, health anxiety had no significant relationship with learning style and in females, health anxiety was higher. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, considering that health anxiety has a significant inverse relationship with academic performance, it is suggested that treatment methods be used to reduce health anxiety in order to improve students' academic performance and lack of significant relationship between two variables of learning style and academic performance, further studies are suggested in this area.