Effect of Cognitive therapy training in groups on health anxiety among Nursing students

health anxiety is one of the most common anxiety disorders among medical students which can affect their activities in professional and educational fields so the main aim of present research is studying the effects of cognitive therapy training in groups on health anxiety rates among nursing students. This study is a quasi-experimental research that designed for 30 nursing students who have health anxiety score upper than average. The students were randomly divided into two groups; experimental and control group. After the short form health anxiety questionnair was completed by Participants، cognitive therapy was taught to experimental group over twelve ninety- minute sessions. Then both experimental and control group completed health anxiety questionnaire again. data are analyzed using Co-variance test (Ancova). The findings of research showed that Cognitive therapy training in groups in significance level (p0. 05) reduces the rate of health anxiety among nursing students (p0. 017). This cognitive therapy training in groups has an important role in reducing health anxiety rate among nursing students. so results of this research can be used in programming interventional remedial، like deployment of educational programs for medical students.