University of Tehran Published jointly with Iranian World Studies Association Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies 2588-3119 5 3 2021 07 01 Cultural and Social Context for Patients’ Coping with COVID-19: Experiences from Tehran Hospitals 577 601 86247 10.22059/wsps.2022.338210.1280 EN Elaheh Karimi Riabi Assistant Professor of Russian, Central Asian and Caucasus Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-8366-0754 Manijeh Firoozi Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 0000-0003-1368-7545 Journal Article 2021 01 30 Two years after the beginning of the pandemic, various strains of COVID-19 continue to affect relatively all regions and countries in the world. Each country responded to the pandemic based on its facilities, approaches, beliefs, and costumes. The main objective of this research is to study the responses, as well as the social and cultural approaches of COVID-19 patients in Iran. Twenty patients, who recovered from COVID-19 in Tehran, participated in this phenomenological and descriptive-interpretative-based research. The extracted profile includes social black holes, individual and social reactions to COVID-19, as well as outlooks on the different aspects of COVID-19 and post-traumatic growth. The findings of the study suggest that the patients face problems such as economic difficulties that coincided with the pandemic, as well as a lack of adequate medical equipment. This led them to ambivalence, which in turn prepared them for change; patients eventually reached a degree of acceptance and achieved post-disease growth. https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_86247_d7fc40b7aab1fbd784d09b662f5b175b.pdf