A phenemological study of post-traumatic life experiences of army public school survivors
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2017
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UMT Lahore
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This study provides a qualitative analysis of the perception of male survivors derived from the experiences of the Army Public School incident. The primary objective of this study is to explore the subjective experience of the incident by the survivors, its impact on their life, and how they managed to overcome this impact. For this purpose, semi structured interviews were taken from four participants (aged 18-21), contacted using snowball sampling technique. The data is analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) technique. The results based on the interviews were showing a process of the effect of traumatic event to its management and recovery. It included the negative and positive impacts of trauma and the strategies used to overcome the negative impacts. Since this topic has an extremely sensitive nature, ethical considerations were given paramount importance in this study; data confidentiality, interviewee rapport, comfort and anonymity, arrangement of free-of-cost clinical counseling by Dr. Khalid Mufti (with consent and sole willingness of the participant/s). Furthermore, it was found that death of loved ones played an important role to develop negative symptoms.