• Evaluation of Health Anxiety in Nursing and Midwifery Students of Iran University of Medical Sciences During Covid-19 Crisis in 2021
  • Fatemeh Javadi,1,* Kosar Zeighami,2
    1. Bachelor of Midwifery, Student`s Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
    2. Master Student in Rehabilitation Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran


  • Introduction: With the spread of Covid-19 worldwide, young adults, often including students, are not only at risk for physical health but also mental health, stress and anxiety problems. Health anxiety is an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition which most people experience, but the problem arises when the anxiety is excessive. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of health anxiety among nursing and midwifery students of Iran university of medical sciences.
  • Methods: The present descriptive study was performed on 191 nursing and midwifery students of Iran University of Medical Sciences after obtaining approval from the ethics committee. Data was collected by available sampling method, using demographic information checklist and 18-item health anxiety questionnaire, provided to students through the Porsline link and social networks in cyberspace. The collected data were analyzed by Spss-16 software and descriptive statistics were used to describe the data and chi-square inferential test to determine the relationship between demographic factors and health anxiety.
  • Results: 71.2% of the students participating in the study were women and the average age of students was 23.98 years. 65.44% of the participants studied at the undergraduate level. Also 177 of the participants (92.67%) did not have any underlying disease. The results showed that the mean health anxiety of the participants was 17.93. There was a significant relationship between health anxiety and having a history of underlying disease (P = 0.05).
  • Conclusion: The probability of health anxiety in medical students is higher than students in other fields, therefore it is suggested that special programs be considered to prevent the occurrence of health anxiety in this group.
  • Keywords: Health Anxiety, Covid-19, Students, Nursing, Midwifery