The Concept of COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors from Iranian Men’s Perspective: A Qualitative Study
| Author | Zahra Sadat Asadi | en |
| Author | Afsaneh Karami Juyani | en |
| Author | Mohammad Hassan Kazemi-Galougahi | en |
| Author | Amirreza Abouee-Mehrizi | en |
| Orcid | Zahra Sadat Asadi [0000-0002-9193-046X] | en |
| Orcid | Mohammad Hassan Kazemi-Galougahi [0000-0003-4601-6457] | en |
| Issued Date | 2025-01-31 | en |
| Abstract | Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has directly and indirectly affected people in different countries. Recognizing individual and social patterns of behavior among communities is very effective in designing and implementing prevention models. Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify individual and social preventive behaviors associated with COVID-19 in Iranian men in 2022. Methods: Data were collected using in-depth unstructured interviews with 15 Iranian men in 2022. Participants were selected using purposive sampling. The qualitative data were analyzed using directed content analysis. Results: In total, 939 primary codes were extracted from the interviews upon analysis. Overall, 5 themes, 13 categories, and 38 sub-categories were obtained after analyzing the collected codes. The themes included emotional perception of COVID-19, COVID-19 awareness, perceived barriers to COVID-19 prevention, perceived social measures for COVID-19 prevention, and individual actions taken to prevent COVID-19. Categories included negative feelings toward COVID-19, no worries about COVID-19, nature of the disease, disease recovery, disease symptoms, routes of transmission, diagnostic methods, individual barriers to COVID-19 prevention, social barriers to COVID-19 prevention, improving social skills and behaviors, revising the rules and reforming infrastructure, using personal protective equipment, and prevention by following healthcare programs. Conclusions: Certain recommendations and challenges for COVID-19 prevention were reported by Iranian men. Some of the barriers to COVID-19 prevention were related to social behaviors, and others were related to managerial policies and infrastructure reform. Understanding People’s experiences and opinions about COVID-19 can provide potential benefits for preventing this disease. | en |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5812/jjhs-153898 | en |
| Keyword | COVID-19 | en |
| Keyword | Prevention | en |
| Keyword | Behavior | en |
| Keyword | Iranian Men | en |
| Publisher | Brieflands | en |
| Title | The Concept of COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors from Iranian Men’s Perspective: A Qualitative Study | en |
| Type | Research Article | en |
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