en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height:1;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">Background</span></b><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">: Finding meaning in life reduces stress and increases life expectancy in human beings. The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of women recovered from breast cancer and the meaning of their lives.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="background:white"><strong>Methods</strong>:<span style="font-weight:normal"> This qualitative study was performed on cured women with breast cancer, who referred to Yazd cancer medical centers in January and February, 2021. Eleven women with breast cancer who have been healthy for at least 5 years were interviewed based on theoretical saturat<span style="line-height:1;">ion, and purposeful, in-depth and semi-structured talks. Due to COVID-19 condition, all&nbsp;interviews were done by telephone the interviews were analyzed using the Colaizzi&#39;s method of data analy</span>sis.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:24pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Results</b>: Data analysis led to the emergence of a main theme called <i>individual and social development</i> and four sub-themes including<i> spiritual perfection</i>,<i> oneness</i>,<i> individual well-being and social growth.</i> The patients saw cancer as </span></span></span><span style="line-height:1;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed">an opportunity to reflect their own values and goals and to correct them in order to draw themselves closer to spirituality and to love other beings.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Conclusion</b>: Achieving perfection, personal growth, striving for well-being and social interest play a significant role in life experiences of women recovered from cancer. Findings of this study can be used as a conceptual basis for designing meaningful teaching intervention models for patients who have recently been diagnosed with cancer.</span></span></span></span></p> Meaning of Life, Cured Breast Cancer, Lived Experiences 100 108 http://jhr.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1902-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fateme Nemati Fatima_1102002@yahoo.com 0000-0002-4126-6943 No Department of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Fahimeh Dehghani dehghanif@hotmail.com 0000-0002-9890-7430 Yes Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University, Iran Saeed Vaziri s.vaziri@iauyazd.ac.ir No Department of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Seyed Mohammad Reza Mortazavizadeh mortazavizadeh@ssu.ac.ir No Hazrat Ali-Ibn Abitaleb (AS) School of Medicine, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran