title: What are the people's attitudes toward spinal cord injury victims (from common to elite).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  One of the acutely fatal and prevalent crises in all societies is acute spinal cord injury. Individuals with a spinal cord injury are prone to numerous challenges, perturbation, and acute mental distresses. One of their concerns, often expressed generally and in the form of a complaint, is how people deal with them. The present study aims to analyze the experiences and interactions of the disabled with the society and to achieve a deep clarification of their internal attitudes and realistic approaches in various social classes (from common people to elite).
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study is a part of a greater research with a classical grounded theory approach conducted on 12 successful and nationally and internationally popular disabled people. Sampling was firstly purposive and then continued with snowball sampling. The data were collected by open deep interviews which were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The obtained data were analyzed by Graneheim content analysis method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings obtained through analysis of the interviews yielded the theme of a socially suppressing attitude which contained four subthemes of compassionate attitude, disability attitude, inhuman attitude, and atonement attitude.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that both groups of common, and educated and elite classes of Iranian society have identically suppressing attitudes and interactions toward spinal cord injury victims. It seems that traditional attitudes yet preponderate academic and scientific knowledge in Iranian society. This gap needs notable attention of all the Iranians, especially policy makers and social personalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hosseinigolafshani
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Heidarali
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abedi
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Fazlolah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ahmadi
keywords: Content analysis; Iran; disabled; society