en Short Communication <span style=font-size:14px;><span style=unicode-bidi:embed><span new= roman= style=font-family: times=><b><span cambria= style=font-family:>Aims: </span></b><span cambria= style=font-family:>Major traumatic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the related lockdown can affect the family as the fundamental unit of all societies. This study aimed to explain family members’ psychological experiences of the COVID-19 lockdown.</span></span></span><br> <span style=unicode-bidi:embed><span new= roman= style=font-family: times=><b><span cambria= style=font-family:>Participants & Methods:</span></b><span cambria= style=font-family:> This qualitative study was conducted </span><span cambria= style=font-family:>from October 2020 to February 2021 on Public population living in Khorramabad, Iran</span><span cambria= style=font-family:>. The sample size that achieved data saturation was 29 by purposive sampling. </span><span cambria= style=font-family:>Unstructured in-depth interviews were used to collect the data. The inductive content analysis approach proposed by Graneheim & Lundman was used to analyze the data.</span></span></span><br> <span style=unicode-bidi:embed><span new= roman= style=font-family: times=><b><span cambria= style=font-family:>Findings:</span></b><span cambria= style=font-family:> Both positive (movement toward the expansion of the worldview and a sense of pleasure and happiness) and negative (anxiety, a sense of isolation, intensification of loneliness, mood and energy changes, hardship and fatigue from lockdown, boredom, anger, depression, disruption of the sleep-wake patterns, being fed up with limitations, feelings of helplessness, more frequent family disputes and arguments and Internet abuse) psychological aspects were recognized, each of which had some subcategories. </span></span></span><br> <span style=unicode-bidi:embed><span new= roman= style=font-family: times=><b><span cambria= style=font-family:>Conclusion: </span></b><span cambria= style=font-family:>The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown created negative and disruptive experiences and positive and constructive experiences for different individuals.</span></span></span></span> Psychological Experiences , Family , COVID-19 , Quarantine , Qualitative Research 99 107 http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-65994-1&slc_lang=en&sid=4