Authors : Lida Sasani, Sayedali Naji and Heydarali Abedi
Abstract: The present research has been done by the purpose of life experiences of patients who suffer from AIDS. Awareness of these patients’ life experiences helps us to be better familiar with their personal life and find a general and deep cognition of all the aspects of their life and take step regarding promoting of their life quality in all the dimensions. Qualitative approach (phenomenology) has been used in this research. Sampling has been done by the method based on goal and up to information saturation. The participants were the patients suffering from AIDS whose disease has been confirmed based on diagnostic criterion and they had active records in center of health behavioral disease in Isfahan (Clinic Martyr Navvab Safavi). The extracted interviews were analyzed. Seven main concepts were obtained which include hope, vanishing, supporting, dark future and the fields of catching the disease, remorse and anger. The results of present research indicate that these patients experience a broad range of problems in different dimensions including physically, mentally, socially and economic. These people need watching by family and society in the physical dimension. Economic pressures arisen from treatments’ additional costs and inability arisen from disease lead these patients toward dependency and challenge in order to provide health care needs and all of these factors face the patients with many difficulties in the mental area which itself necessitate the need to mental spiritual supports and application of psychological consultations.
Lida Sasani, Sayedali Naji and Heydarali Abedi, 2016. The Life Experiences of the Patients Suffering from AIDS Living in Isfahan (Iran) in 2011. International Journal of Tropical Medicine, 11: 43-49.