Identify the most common psychological traumas and defense mechanisms of the treatment staff during coronavirus outbreaks

The families of medical staff experience many psychological traumas in coronavirus crisis situations. Identifying and treating the most common family trauma's treatment staff and their defense mechanisms can help reduce their trauma.

This research was conducted in terms of applied purpose and with a qualitative approach and interpretive phenomenological method. The research samples were saturated by selecting 22 members of the cadre family using targeted snowball sampling. Video telephone interviews were used to collect data. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis based on the model of Brown and Clark (2006).

 The findings of the interviews were extracted and classified into three main themes of psychological trauma, adult defense mechanisms and immature defense mechanisms.

Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that the family of medical staff under the influence of critical conditions of coronavirus, have experienced a variety of psychological damage and according to their defense mechanisms, the necessary measures should be taken in this regard