Comparing the Mental Health of the Athletic and Non- athletic Physically- disabled People

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

Body movement in disabled people is one of the important problems due to their physical and motor 
limitations. For this purpose, the present study is conducted to compare the mental health of the athlete and 
non- athlete physically disabled people in the city of Rasht .The sample population was 183( 94 athletes and 
89 non-athletes) disabled people from the city of Rasht, who were selected randomly. The measuring 
instrument of the study was The Multidimensional Health Questionnaire (MHQ) which includes 20 sub-scales 
of mental health. The collected data were analyzed using ANOVA test and t-student test. The results of the 
study indicated that there is a significant difference between mental health and sub-scales of the athletes and 
non-athletes physically disabled people (P<0.05). 
The results of this study indicated that the mental health of the physically disabled people and the 20 subscales of the athletes were better than those of the physically disabled non-athletes. Therefore it seems 
necessary that sports and physical activities be more attended to in the daily schedule of disabled people. 

Keywords

• Mental health
• Athletes and Non-athletes
• Physically disabled people

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