leila bastanmeher; annahita khodabakhshi-koolaee; mohammad reza falsafinejad
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The incurable diseases lead to premature death. The last hope is organ transplantation and the most important source is the organ donated after brain death.The purpose of this study was to explore the deep psychological phenomenological approach of the organ donation volunteers by 2017. This research ...
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The incurable diseases lead to premature death. The last hope is organ transplantation and the most important source is the organ donated after brain death.The purpose of this study was to explore the deep psychological phenomenological approach of the organ donation volunteers by 2017. This research was a descriptive phenomenology study conducted with semi-structured in depth interviews. Participants of the study were organ donor volunteers of the Iranian Organ Donation Center in Tehran city. 14 participants were selected by targeting sampling for interview. The analysis method was based on Colaizzi’s Seven-Step Analysis. The result of the study showed three main themes: first ; Khowledg including information about organ donation and insight about death. Second, Core beliefs on organ donation including rationalism, altruism, religion beliefs, moral beliefs, ontological beliefs, agency and justice in living right. And third, Factors that influence core beliefs including family beliefs, family relations, difficulties and society influences.
Masumeh Aminikhoo; Hossein Eskandari; Mohamad Reza Falsafinejad; Ahmad Borjali; Shahla Pezeshk
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Because of the dominance of positivistic approaches in psychology, exploring the subjective experiences of patients neglected, it is more prominent in patients with schizophrenia. The present researchers understand the meaning of their lived experience and their perception of themselves. Recently, researchers ...
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Because of the dominance of positivistic approaches in psychology, exploring the subjective experiences of patients neglected, it is more prominent in patients with schizophrenia. The present researchers understand the meaning of their lived experience and their perception of themselves. Recently, researchers have emphasized the importance of first-person’s information of patients. This study was conducted to understand the self-experience in schizophrenia. This was a qualitative case study (phenomenological design). Since the purpose of the research was the study of lived experience of participant, the phenomenological method used in this study. Participant was selected using purpose-oriented sampling. He is male, 36 years and with chronic schizophrenia. In-depth semi-structured interviews were recorded. External resources and participation records were also analyzed. Texts were analyzed by interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) method. The main themes include: the timing and location of self -experience, decreased agency, self -metaphor and mirror and physical aversion. The findings were approved theories of psychoanalysis, narrative and dialogical self.
