Title Neįgaliųjų sportininkų gyvenimo kokybė ir kai kurie lygių galimybių aspektai /
Another Title Quality of life of athletes with disability and some aspects of equal possibilities.
Authors Samsonienė, Laimutė ; Baubinas, Algirdas ; Adomaitienė, Rūta ; Jankauskienė, Konstancija ; Korotkich, Igor ; Kėvelaitis, Egidijus
DOI 10.3390/medicina46030030
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Is Part of Medicina.. Kaunas : Kauno medicinos universitetas. 2010, t. 46, Nr. 3, p. 211-218.. ISSN 1010-660X
Keywords [eng] Sports ; Disability ; Quality of life ; Equal possibilities
Abstract [eng] The International Olympic and Paralympic Committees have decided that in 2012, the Olympic and Parolympic Games in London will take place at the same time. For this reason, the aim of our study was to determine whether athletes with disability in Lithuania have the same possibilities for sports – and thus for integration into the unifi ed Lithuanian sports system – as those without disability. An anonymous inquiry of athletes with and without disability was performed in 2006. We analyzed 235 questionnaires fi lled in by the participants of the study; 159 subjects were with and 76 without disability. The Lithuanian Paralympic Committee approved the questionnaires and gave an agreement for the study. The inquiry was performed in Lithuanian sports clubs for the persons with disability and in the Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education. The obtained fi ndings about the respondents’ personality and environmental factors indicated that the indices of self-awareness in all athletes without disability were signifi cantly higher than in athletes with disability (P<0.05). More than one-half (56.6%) of the respondents without disability indicated that their life was meaningful, whereas the respective percentage of athletes with disability was only 33.8% (P<0.05). As many as 59% of the respondents without disability were satisfi ed with their quality of life, compared to 36.2% of the respondents with disability. More than one-half (56.6%) of athletes without disability indicated that sports played an important role in their lives, whereas the respective percentage of athletes with disability was signifi cantly lower – 33.2%. Only one-half (51.6%) of the participants with disability of the study had a permanent instructor (coach). The absolute majority of the respondents (irrespectively of the presence or absence of disability) indicated that sports helped them realize their potential. [...].
Published Kaunas : Kauno medicinos universitetas
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2010