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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1362708
This article is part of the Research Topic Lessons Learned from Epidemic and Pandemic Recovery in Low-Resource Countries View all 4 articles

Lived experience of Iranian adults from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A qualitative study

Provisionally accepted
Samira Pourmoradian Samira Pourmoradian 1Arezoo Haghighian-Roudsari Arezoo Haghighian-Roudsari 2*Tahereh Alsadat Khoubbin Khoshnazar Tahereh Alsadat Khoubbin Khoshnazar 3ali milani bonab ali milani bonab 2
  • 1 Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  • 2 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  • 3 Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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    The widespread impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic on human health causes sudden lifestyle changes, through social distancing and isolation at home, with social and economic consequences. The aim of this qualitative study was to identify the lived experiences of recovered adult patients from COVID-19 in Iran. This qualitative research conducted using a national phenomenological approach. The participants were patients who recovered from COVID-19 through their treatment period in the hospital or at home. Semi-structured in-depth interview applied for 45 participants who invited using purposeful sampling and continued to achieve data saturation. The five-stage Inductive Process to analyze the Structure of lived Experience (IPSE) approach was used to analyze the data using MAXQDA software. According to the statements of the participants in the study, five types of experiences extracted during the period of suffering from the disease, which include nutritional problems, physical problems, psychological burden caused by the disease, the supporting role of others in the disease tolerance, and bitter and sweet experiences of Disease. Patients with Covid-19 disease experience many physical, psychosocial consequences which affect their quality of life. Therefore, social-psychological support provided by psychologists and family members can be have ameliorating effects in reducing disease consequences. Further interventional studies were needed to capture these aspects of diseases.

    Keywords: qualitative study, COVID-19, Iran, Lived (passed) experience, Tehran (city)

    Received: 04 Jan 2024; Accepted: 20 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Pourmoradian, Haghighian-Roudsari, Khoubbin Khoshnazar and bonab. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Arezoo Haghighian-Roudsari, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 198396-3113, Tehran, Iran

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