Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research1735-90661932014060126672EN20140601<p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p><p>A<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; font-size: xx-small;">BSTRACT</span></span><span style="font-family: Humanist521BT-Bold; font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;Background:<strong></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">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.&nbsp;</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">The present study aims to analyze the experiences and <span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">interactions of the disabled with the society and to achieve a deep clari</span></span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">fi</span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">cation of their internal in various social classes (from common people to elite).</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;">Materials and Methods:&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">The present study is a part of a greater research with a classical grounded theory approach conducted <span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">on 12 successful and nationally and internationally popular disabled people. Sampling was&nbsp;</span></span></span></strong></span></strong></span>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">fi</span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">rstly 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.</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><p>Results:</p></span></strong></span></strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">The&nbsp;fi</span></span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">ndings 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.</span></span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><p>Conclusions:&nbsp;<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">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 <span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">scienti</span></span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">fi</span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">c knowledge in Iranian society. This gap needs notable attention of all the Iranians, especially policy makers and social personalities.</span></span></p></span></span></span></span></p></p></span></span></span></span></strong><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: xx-small;">Key words: Content analysis, disabled, Iran, society</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><p>&nbsp;</p></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>http://ijnmr.mui.ac.ir/index.php/ijnmr/article/view/1028http://ijnmr.mui.ac.ir/index.php/ijnmr/article/download/1028/748