INFLUENTIAL EVENTS AND PERSONS IN LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH PARANOID DISORDER; A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the narratives of life in patients with paranoid disorder regarding influential events and persons in their life.
Methods and materials: The qualitative research method was used for narrative analysis based on the McAdams review form to analyze the life stories of patients with paranoid disorder. The research population consisted of paranoid patients admitted to Razi psychiatric hospital in Tehran and sampling method was purposive and the interviews eventually saturated with 8 people. The perception and understanding of the patients about identity and disease, values and beliefs, similarity in their narrative, the important individuals and events were studied. Data analysis was carried out using coding at three levels of open, axial, core using MAXQDA version 12.3.
Results and conclusion: The significant others in the life of these individuals include the father, mother, sister, brother, spouse, friends and relatives and the opposite sex; Influential events include negative affecting events, positive affecting events, other influential events; traumas; self includes judgments about self, conflicts, humor, individual characteristics, attitudes toward religious issues; attributes include negative external attributions; marriage and sexual matters including marital status and sexual issues which all of this express the experience and dimensions of patients' perception of their lives. The patients know their father and brother as the most important and significant others in their lives and perceived the mother as a person with contradictory behaviors.
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