Document Type : Original Research Paper
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
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Master's degree in Youth Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Sensitive bowel syndrome is considered as one of the coaaaammon psychosomatic diseases in young and sometimes middle age groups, which has a psychological and simultaneously spiritual origin, while including physical symptoms and complications, especially in the digestive system. Considering paradigms, approaches, theories, and also, reviewing experimental studies conducted in the specialized field of sociology of mental illnesses, one confirms that factors and fields effective in the occurrence of sensitive bowel syndrome are beyond the absolute realm of clinical and psychiatric view and, conversely, shows its relevance to sociological and social psychological variables in different levels of social reality. The aim of this study is to discover the representative themes of the components and substrates related to the lived experience of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among 25 men and women aged 19-45 years referring to gastroenterology clinics located in Tehran. Data collection has been done through application of in-depth and semi-structured interview technique while data mining has been performed on the basis of Moustakas method - under descriptive phenomenology. "Pre-illness lived contexts", "persistent physical distress", "complexity of diagnosis and difficulty of palliation", "established social and communication limitations", and "psychological difficulties following the illness" are the five final themes discovered related to various aspects of the IBS disease lived experience among the study informants. The aforementioned themes are second-hand constructs that have been abstracted in the form of moving from the realm of the concrete to the realm of the abstract, as well as following the coding of the interview data, multiple readings of the data, and subsequent revisions and adjustments of the themes. Criticizing Hegemonic medicalized exposure to illness, reducing of the dimensions and angles of the disease to its objective and physical aspect, and subsequently, neglecting the pervasive social, cultural and economic conditions and hardships in the anxious society form the main points of the conclusion of the article.
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