1 Function & Disability Journal 2023, Volume 6 Research Paper Recognizing the Viewpoint and Experience of Blind People in Navigation and Daily Trafc Homa Kazemi 1 , Mohammad Kamali 1* , Reza Salehi 1 , Hossein Mobaraki 1 1. Department of Rehabilitation Management, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. * Corresponding Author: Mohammad Kamali, Professor. Address: Department of Rehabilitation Management, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98 (21) 2222 2059 E-mail: kamali.mo@iums.ac.ir Background and Objectives: One of the mos obvious problems faced by the blind is the inability to navigate properly. Safe and independent urban navigation is difcult for visually impaired people. According to the international classifcation of functioning, disability, and health (ICF), the health and illness satus of a person is measured by the sructure and function of the body, limitations in performing activities, and the person’s participation in society. Individual factors and environmental factors afect a person’s activities, and these activities afect a person’s participation in society. For this reason, the present sudy was conducted to invesigate the individual factors that blind people use in their daily trafc. Methods: In this qualitative sudy, 12 blind people, 1 person with severe visual impairment, and 1 sighted person were selected using the snowball sampling method to participate in the sudy. Information was collected through in-depth and semi-sructured interviews. The conventional content analysis method was used for analysis and the data triangulation method was used to validate the fndings. Results: After analyzing the satements and classifying the extracted codes, 4 sub-themes were obtained, including “learning the route”, “reluctance to travel”, “helping others”, "using environmental signs” and from the integration of these sub-themes, the theme “daily trafc” appeared. Conclusion: The present sudy showed that blind people use similar srategies in their daily trafc. These solutions include keeping the path, traveling on familiar paths, using environmental signs, and getting help from others. Reasons, such as fear of the environment, fear of injury, and the family’s unwillingness to leave are an obsacle to the independent movement of the blind person. Keywords: Blindness, Patient navigation, Daily trafc, Qualitative research, Router program A B S T R A C T Article info: Received: 25 Jan 2023 Accepted: 26 Jun 2023 Available Online: 30 July 2023 Funding This article is extracted from the maser’ s thesis of Homa Kazemi, approved by Department of Rehabilitation Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences. Confict of interes The authors declared no confict of interes. *This work has been published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Cite this article as Kazemi H, Kamali M, Salehi R, Mobaraki H. Recognizing the Viewpoint and Experience of Blind People in Navigation and Daily Trafc. Function and Disability Journal. 2023; 6:E236.1. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/fdj.6.236.1 http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/fdj.6.236.1 Use your device to scan and read the artcle online