The qualitative study I chose this week is “Living with a heart transplant.” The study was designed to understand and gain deeper insight into the lived experience of Iranian heart transplant recipients. The main research question in this study is “what is the meaning of living with a transplanted heart”? Having a heart problem can be devastating for anyone. However, there is treatment available ((Peyrovi, Raiesdana, & Mehrdad, 2014). It is reported that the total number of patients receiving heart transplant likely exceeds 5,000 worldwide with current survival rate about 50% at 12 years (Alraies & Eckman, 2014). Heart transplant treatment is a new care for individuals with heart failure which is one of the reasons studies have looked at the results and the complications as well as the technical problems connected with hearts transplant (Peyrovi et al., 2014).
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235). One of the reasons why the phenomenology approach was used is to discover the experiences of the participants in the study. The site that was chosen for this study was a hospital setting affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the city of Tehran, Iran. A hospital setting was used because it was possible to find informed participants as opposed to other contexts. Patients who need heart transplant all over the country are referred to this clinic two times a month for a
235). One of the reasons why the phenomenology approach was used is to discover the experiences of the participants in the study. The site that was chosen for this study was a hospital setting affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the city of Tehran, Iran. A hospital setting was used because it was possible to find informed participants as opposed to other contexts. Patients who need heart transplant all over the country are referred to this clinic two times a month for a