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Title: Interaction Experiences of Blind Mothers with their Children: A Hermeneutic phenomenological study
Author(s): Mahmood Shamshiri, Samira Shahbazzadegan, Zahra Behbodi Moghadam, Shahrzad Ghiasvandian
Presentation Type: Oral
Subject: Visual Psychophysics and Optics
Others:
Presenting Author:
Name: Mahmood Shamshiri
Affiliation :(optional) Assistant Professor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
E mail: m.shamshiri@arums.ac.ir
Phone: 09142861868
Mobile: 09142861868
Purpose:

Mother as the primary caregiver plays a crucial role in development of the child. Severe visually impaired or blind mothers’ parenting experience can be valuable and beneficent in providing a holistic and appropriate care for both blind mothers and their children. This study aimed to explore the experiences of blind mothers to interact with their children

Methods:

A hermeneutic phenomenology approach was adopted to conduct the study. Congruent with this approach, van Manen’s method consists of 6 interplay activities helped the researchers to perform the process of the study. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were performed to produce qualitative data with nine blind mothers. The thematic analysis introduced by van Manen was used to isolate and emerge the meaning units, sub-themes and the main theme, hidden in the lived stories of the participants.

Results:

‘Close lovers’ was the overarching theme that extracted from the mother-child interaction experiences of blind mothers. It emerged from 6 themes including monitoring by alternative senses, monitoring by careful calls and staying vigilant, loving by heart and imagining in mind, discovering child’s intentions, parenting anxiety and deficits in communication.

Conclusion:

Blindness changes the mothering behaviors of blind women to an extent that they adopt a close mothering approach in caring of their children. This approach helps them to cope with their limitations and thereby decrease the level of child-related anxiety. Health professionals should consider the concept of ‘close lovers’ to better understand and to provide appropriate care for blind mothers and their children.

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