Lived experience of adolescents growing up with siblings with cognitive-motor impairments: a hermeneutic phenomenological study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Understanding the lived experience of adolescents growing up with siblings with cognitive-motor impairments (CMIs) leads to the development of more effective supporting strategies for these adolescents and their families. This study aims to understand explain the lived experience of adolescents growing up with siblings with CMIs.

Study design

This is a qualitative phenomenological study with a population consisting of adolescents growing up with siblings with CMIs in Hamadan province, selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through 10 semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Although six adolescents ultimately participated in the study, sampling continued until no new themes emerged, indicating that sufficient richness and depth had been achieve

SUBMITTER: Shoghi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12330084 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature