Abstract:

The study was conducted to invesitigation of the barrier factors of participation in physical activity programs of individuals with special needs (SNI). Understanding the factors that barriers participation in physical activity is important to design effective interventions by encouraging individual participation in physical activity. The study was was conducted by using a screening model to collect information on the subject and to compose a theoretical infrastructure. The electronic databases were scanned to determine the studies related to the subject and no date limitation was made during the scan. A comprehensive search strategy for each database has been developed three main concepts and their synonyms. These basic concepts are physical activity, barrier and disability. Also, reference lists of the obtained studies were searched and relevant studies. Twenty six articles related to the topic of the screening, three thesis studies have been determined and included together with individuals SNI whose families, carers, trainers and physical education teachers. It has been determined that only one study has been conducted on this topic in the study. As a result of the research, 55 barriers were determined and this barriers was divided into four subtitles. These: Individual, Social, Environmental and Other barriers. Under the title of environmental barrier, “transportation” is located 17, “cost” barriers (transportation, equipment, facilities, etc.) is located under the title of other barriers 13, “Lack of athletic skill-coordination” under the title oflack of physical skills were reported in 12 studies. It has been achieved as a result that the barrier determined by the study can be removed by the related persons and organizations to enable SNI individuals to participate in more and more efficient physical activity.

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