The investigation of physical activity level of disabled university students

In this study, disabled university students have been accepted as a nature of study who has been studying at different universities in 2012-2013. The research sample has consisted by 173 male and 142 female in total 318 students from different universities. In this research, the questionnaire has been conducted in order to determine their personal information and the socio-economic levels of students, which developed by the researcher with her opinion. In order to determine the physical activity levels of students, the IPAQ International Physical Activity Questionnaire used that was developed by Michael Booth in 1996 (Sydney-Australia).The IPAQ short form was used in this research and its validity and reliability analysis had carried out by School of Sport and Technology in 2007 at Hacettepe University. The analyses of data gathered from the research have been statistically assessed by the SPPS 20 packet computer program. The suitability of normal distribution of data was examined with Shapiro-Wilk test and the non-parametric statistical tests used due to the distribution were not normal. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney test was used for comparisons between the groups. Due to the use of non-parametric statistical tests descriptive median values (minimum-maximum) were carried out in this study. The level of significance was determined as ? = 0.05. As a result of research by sex of disabled students from different universities, moderate intensity physical activity was observed for female students and high intensity activity was observed for male students. It has been identified those 23-25 years age group had more high intensity physical activity level to compare with other age group of students. According to results of study, disabled students have participate to high intensity of physical activity then others, also with high income disabled students prefer to participate high intensity of physical activity. Moreover, 4th grade students prefer to participate high intensity of physical activity, on the other hand, High Met value has observed in who has prefer to participate in team sports. Finally, it has observed that transportation, lack of free time and other issues has cause to not participate to do exercises in this study.