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Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between anxiety and clinical performance self-efficacy perception in nursing students during the distance education period of the COVID-19 pandemic process. Material and Methods: This study was performed as a descriptive-cross sectional. The sample of the study consisted of 453 undergraduate nursing students studying at a university. Clinical Performance Self-Efficacy Scale and Spielberger State and Trait Anxiety Scale were used to collect data. Parametric (independent samples t test, one-way ANOVA-Tukey's HSD for differences between groups) and non-parametric tests (Kruskal–Wallis test, Bonferroni test for subgroup comparisons when significance is found in more than two independent group comparisons and Mann–Whitney U test for pairwise comparisons) were used in the analyses. and Spearman correlation coefficient was used for the correlation between variables. Results: The average age of the students participating in the research is 21.47±1.92, 68.7% are female, 36.90% are in the second grade, 9.70% are diagnosed with COVID-19, 61.60% are afraid of getting COVID-19, 75.10% stated that they took adequate precautions to protect against COVID-19, and 45.30% stated that they lost a relative due to COVID-19. It was observed that 57.0% of the students had a high level of anxiety according to the State Anxiety Sub-Scale, 71.1% had a high level of anxiety according to the Trait Anxiety Sub-Scale, and the perception of clinical performance self-efficacy was moderate. There is a negative significant relationship between students' perception of state-trait anxiety and clinical performance self-efficacy (r= -0.245; p<0.001). Conclusion: It has been suggested that nursing educators support students to reduce students' anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, make up for the development of clinical self-efficacy perception, and prepare different practice environments.

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