Abstract:

The aim of this study was to investigate physical activity levels of disabled students who were studying at different universities in 2012-2013 education years according to some variables. Totally 318 disabled student who were studying at 19 different universities were participated in this study. IPAQ short form used to determine (FA) physical activity levels of students. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney non-parametric tests were used with alpha set at α=0.05 for comparisons between the groups. According to study findings, when we examined the frequency and percentage distribution of disabled students’ physical activity levels who are studying at different universities, it is determined that %32.6 of visually impaired students were attending low intensity physical activity while %39.3 of them were attending middle intensity physical activity and %28.1 of them were attending high intensity physical activity. For hearing impaired students, it is determined that %30.8 of them were attending low intensity physical activity while %40.7 of them were attending middle intensity physical activity and %28.6 of them were attending high intensity physical activity. For physically disabled students, it is determined that %34.1of them were attending low intensity physical activity while %37 of them were attending middle intensity physical activity and %29 of them were attending high intensity physical activity. It is observed that students who prefer to participate in team sports has higher Met values than other students and transportation, lack of free time and other issues are determined as reason for not to participate in exercises. Considering with these results, we hoped that this research may guide and motivate disabled students to participate in more physical activity, may take attention to psychological processes which could be defined as other reasons and may light to way for further studies

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