DISCUSSING AND IDENTIFYING SPORTS REQUIREMENTS OF CLIENTS OF SPORTS FACILITIES OF KURDISTAN PROVINCE FROM THE VIEW OF YOUTHS
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The aim of the present research was to discuss and identify the sports related requirements and needs of clients of Kurdistan province’s sports facilities from the view of youths. In terms of purpose, it’s considered as an applied research and also in terms of strategy, it is considered as a descriptive-survey study which is carried out under field methods. In order to elaborate on the goals of this study, a researcher made questionnaire including 30 items and arranged based on a five degrees Likert scale was employed. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by certain experts of physical education and management and also its reliability was calculated as 0.78 through the application of Kronbach’s alpha method. The population of this study includes the entire 15-24 year old boys and girls throughout the province of Kurdistan. Among the population, a number of 384 individuals were selected as the sample through the application of Morgan’s table, however 450 questionnaires were distributed among the sample and ultimately, 391 questionnaires were collected back as completed questionnaires. For the purpose of sampling, a cluster sampling method was employed. In addition, for analysis of data at descriptive level, the abundance tables, abundance percentages, mean and standard deviation methods were used and for the same purpose at inferential level, the tests of Kolmogorov-Smirnoff, one sample t and Freedman were employed which were all performed by the software of SPSS v.22. Obtained results indicated that there exists a significant difference between sports priorities and sports related needs of clients of Kurdistan province’s sports facilities. In addition, the status of Kurdistan province’s sports facilities was significantly unsuitable. There was also a significant difference noticed between the sports related needs of male and female clients of Kurdistan province’s sports facilities.
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