The Analysis of the College Students Lived Experience of the consequences of Quarantine during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

The narrative of human disease is a story of fears and loneliness and threats that are destroyed like a plague on their lives and the frightened human being to the corner of isolation. One of the emerging diseases of the present age is a virus from the coronavirus family called Covid-19. The rapid spread of the disease is one of the most important features of the virus, and many countries around the world face major psychological, economic, religious, and political challenges.

The aim of this study was to identify the effects of quarantine during Covid-19 pandemic. The statistical population of the present study included Master’s degree students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran. This study was conducted with a qualitative approach and narrative analysis method. The data was collected through semi-structured narrative interviews in virtual space with 24 graduate students of Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran who had at least 10 days of quarantine experience and had sufficient information about the study topic. The sampling method in this study was targeted theoretical sampling. Brown and Clark’s thematic analysis method (2006) was used to analyze the data.

The four main themes of fear of illness, deprivation and boredom, intellectual and practical doubts and academic and occupational concerns were extracted from the collected qualitative data.

Home quarantine is one of the control and preventive methods of the spread of infectious diseases along with other methods, but at the same time, the concerns and problems of people in home quarantine were always one of the most important challenges during the outbreak of this disease.