Background: Education is important for any nation not only for the development of their basic need but also to minimize poverty. While self-efficacy is the confidence of someone to meet challenges and complete tasks successfully and Quality education provide the student with a wide scope of skills and the opportunity to succeed in their future accomplishments in the society. The study was conducted with the aim to determine the level of self-efficacy and its impact on quality of life.

Method and Materials: The study was conducted in the nursing institutes of Khyber pukhtankhwa from April to July 2023 using cross-sectional descriptive design. The sample size was 650 students, using simple random sampling technique. A self-efficacy and quality of life questionnaire was used for data collection, while for analysis SPSS 20.0 Used.

Results: The total number of participants of the study was 640, Male were in majority (51.5%) compare to female students (48.5%). majority of the self-efficacy level was High (69.8%), followed by average level of self-efficacy (21.8%), while students with poor level of self-efficacy was very little (8.5%). The number of male students with good level of self-efficacy was (38.1%) compare to female students (31.5%).

Overall quality of life among the students was (3.6 ± 0.57) that was good, while among the domains of quality of life the mean score of school environment was high (3.9 ± 0.95), with high domain score of physical sub-scale (3.6 ± 0.83).

Conclusion: The study concluded that majority of the students self-efficacy was, while the quality of life among the students was also good. Age is weak positive correlated with self-efficacy and Quality of life, on other hand QoL is negative weak correlated with self-efficacy.

KEYWORDS:

Quality of life, health competency, self-efficacy, nursing students,