Introduction: The nurses are the largest providers of health care and have a basic role in continuity, maintaining and improving health. The aim is to study the effect of information literacy training on self-efficacy of the nursing graduate students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Method: This is a semi-experimental study with pre and post-test and follow up with control group. The target population was comprised of the nursing graduate students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, which from, 65 were selected by simple random sampling and then by random assignment, 35 of them were placed in test and 30 in control groups. The required information was collected by a questionnaire comprising of three parts, namely demographic, information literacy skills and self-efficacy.The gathered data were analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA method with SPSS software Ver.21. Findings: There was a significant difference only in self-efficacy variable between men and women, but there was significant difference between educational groups for both information literacy and self-efficacy variables (P=0.001). Information positioning variable, solely, had the capability to predict 0.792 of the variance in self-efficacy variable. This amount reached to 0.847 and 0.872 within the second and third steps, by adding two other variables namely information documentation and information utilization, respectively (P=0.001). All self-efficiency components increased significantly in post-test group (P=0.001). Conclusion: Training information literacy skills to students increase information-seeking skills, familiarity with internet and information databases and satisfying information needs which lastly increase their self-efficacy beliefs, in a way that such effects are evident in all aspects of self-efficacy skills.
