Self-efficacy of Iranian nurses and effective factors: a systematic review

self-efficacy plays an important role in choosing goals, clinical judgment, decisions and mental health, and it also affects the performance and quality of nurses' work. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to review the studies conducted in the field of self-efficacy of Iranian nurses and the effective factors.

This systematic study of the articles published from 1380 to 1401 (2001-2022) from Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, web of science, Science Direct, SID Magiran, Irandoc databases in both Persian and English languages. The research has put the keywords: self-efficacy and nurse in Persian sources and nurse, self-efficacy in English sources and its Mesh equivalents were used using OR and AND operators. Conducting research in Iran was the main criterion for selecting articles to be included in the study. Out of 240 studies that investigated the self-efficacy of nurses in Iran, after evaluating the quality of the articles, 14 articles were considered eligible and included in the study.

The results of extracting the findings of the articles showed that the level of self-efficacy of Iranian nurses is higher than the average level and is related to the variables of gender, work experience, job satisfaction, job stress, clinical decision-making, emotional and spiritual intelligence, tension and moral sensitivity, public, social and psychological health, self-awareness and disrespectful behavior are related.

Iranian nurses' self-efficacy is relatively favorable. Considering that improving the self-efficacy of nurses can lead to effective clinical decisions, better performance and higher quality care, health care system managers should consider individual and organizational factors affecting self-efficacy in planning and making decisions. and try to increase it as much as possible.