This study aimed to compare the psychological profile of pet owners with the ones who didn’t own any pets. The research method was a casual-comparative study. Pet owners and people without pets were included in this research which was done in Iran in February 2017. One hundred and sixty people were selected in this sample in a nonrandom available sampling method and matched in terms of demographic characteristics. Eighty people, pet owners, were referred to the veterinary clinics and 80 didn’t own any pets. They were assessed by a psychological signs inventory. The result of ANOVA indicated that pet owners and those without any pets were indifferent in the characteristics of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hostility, paranoid, interpersonal sensitivity, and psychosis, while those without any pets, statistically had a higher average in somatization and depression than the pet owners and it could be justified by corrective emotional experience, displacement, and sublimation in the pet owner. This statistic can be based on the fact that pet owners use these animals as an object for thrilling topics which is a factor to decrease their psychological stress and increase their physical health.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the living experience of coronary patients in Shiraz and the peak prevalence of the second stage in summer. This study could further examine these experiences in broader groups in subsequent studies. Identifying the psychological causes and effects of this disease with the help of patients involved in some countries has been considered. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The method, which was used in this study, was a qualitative method and content analysis. Participants in this study were 13 patients with COVID-19, some of whom were members of the medical staff. The participants were selected purposefully. The semi-organized interview with the participants continued until the theoretical saturation was reached. RESULTS: After extracting the codes, researchers classify them, and then the results were examined in more depth and categorized. About 120 extracted codes were classified into seven general categories; three of them were directly related to psychological issues. The other four of them were related to the subject of psychological effects and consequences. CONCLUSION: In general, during the interview process, it was proved that the more severe the symptoms of the disease, the psychological experiences of confronting the disease because of its outbreak, and the processes of coping with it were deeper.
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