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  The findings from the present study revealed that less than 30% of nursing and midwifery students have high assertiveness and only half of them have low anxiety.
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  Assertiveness and anxiety have negative correlations in nursing and midwifery students and affect the mental health and educational and occupational performance of the students.
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  Many factors such as years of education and working while studying influence the level of assertiveness in the students.
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  The anxiety in students had a significant relation with the father's level of education, family income, etc.

The simultaneous existence of low assertiveness and high anxiety in nursing and midwifery students leads to the disruption of study performance. There exists little information concerning their assertiveness. The purpose of this study was to determine the relation of assertiveness and anxiety in nursing and …