ABSTRACT
Teachers, parents and foundations should become objective-oriented for children with visual impairment so that learning and sensitization of necessary knowledge and skills for the behaviors of these children are assisted. Where there is impairment in the relations of children caregivers, their emotional security is disturbed and its effects will appear in their behaviors. Therefore, strong dependence on parents, teachers and other adults is the characteristics of most of the children with physical problems including blind children. Since use of the experiences of caregivers of these children increases their efficiency and life skills, this study was conducted aiming to understand the experiences of blind children caregivers in Isfahan. This study was a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach to investigate the experiences of blind children caregivers including mothers and teachers. Four mothers of blind children and four caregivers of blind children were purposefully selected and interviewed from 2007 to 2009. Data were collected through interviews which were recorded on cassette tapes. The obtained data were analyzed using Collizzi method. The experiences of the blind children caregivers were divided into two groups of challenge and role. The results of this study showed that upon diagnosing the child's blindness, the parents suffer from mental stress. At first, they deny the problem, but then they begin to come along and accept the blind child. At this time, they analyze the effective factors in keeping and educating the child. At the same time, they act in response to the child influenced by several factors including the role of the society.
ABSTRACT
Unsafe abortion is the main problem of women during their reproductive age. This study was carried out to explore the reasons behind illegal abortion in Iran. This was a qualitative study. Twenty-seven participants were interviewed during March and September 2006 about illegal abortion process. All participants had an experience about illegal abortion or their occupation was relevant to the one aspect of illegal abortion. Interviews were analyzed using a content analysis method. Five main themes emerged from analysis: motivations for ending unwanted pregnancy [social factors, familial factors, personal factors], the assessment of situation [reactions, religious and individual beliefs, socio-politics restrictions], definite decision, changing the mind, doing abortion by the help of fassilators [the role of partner, previous experiment, doing abortion in general or pirvate centers, doing abortion by herself] and abortion outcomes [physical outcome social outcome, mental outcome, juridical outcome]. Illegal abortions are usually performed by unskilled practionnaires. Since, in Iran abortion is illegal, finding ways to protect women against malpractice needs urgent attention