Taikomosios fizinės ir sportinės veiklos poveikio ypatumai regėjimo negalą turinčių asmenų gyvenimo kokybės gerinimo aspektu

LTStraipsnyje atlikta teorinė taikomosios fizinės ir sportinės veiklos poveikio neįgaliųjų gyvenimo kokybės gerinimui sampratos ir regėjimo negalę turinčių asmenų taikomosios fizinės ir sportinės veiklos ypatumų analizė. Tyrimu nustatyta, kad, taikomoji fizinė ir sportinė veikla yra veiksminga poveikio priemonė regėjimo negalę turinčių asmenų gyvenimo kokybei gerinti. Tyrimo duomenys gali būti panaudojami ateityje, padedant neįgaliųjų sporto treneriams, sporto organizatoriams, taikomosios fizinės veiklos specialistams, ergoterapeutams, organizuojant regėjimo negalę turinčių asmenų rekreacinę, reabilitacinę, sportinę veiklą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Neįgaliųjų sportas; Regėjimo negalę turintys asmenys; Rekreacinis neįgaliųjų sportas; Taikomoji fizinė veikla; Applied Physical Activities; People with visual disabilities; Recreation sports for people with disabilities; Recreational Sport for People with Disabilities; Sport for People with Disabilities; Sports for people with disabilities.

ENThe article presents a theoretical analysis of the concept of the effect of applied physical and sports activities on the improvement of the life quality of people with disability and of the peculiarities of applied physical and sports activities of people with a visual disability. The hypothesis is that by applying physical and sports activities, it is possible to improve the psychosocial health and rates of biosocial skills and physical fitness of people with visual disabilities. The hypothesis is raised with reference to the conceptual statement: active physical activities and sports have positive effect on the comprehensive development of the person. The research was performed by using the method of questionnaire survey. The aim was to identify the peculiarities of the effect of the applied physical and sports activities on the aspect of life quality improvement for people with visual disabilities. The statistical (frequencies, averages) analysis of data was performed. 101 respondents with visual disabilities participated in the research: 55 of them went actively in for sports, while 46 did that in a passive way. In the empirical part of the research, physical health and activity, psychosocial health, agents of socialisation, attitudes towards people with visual disabilities, who go in for sports, as well as the efficiency of the measures of the applied physical and sports activities were considered. The main conclusions of the empiric research are as follows: 1. People with visual disabilities, who go in for sports, satisfy one of the major social needs - the need for communication.- by sports activities; this, in turn, improves their life quality. 2. People with disability, who don't take an active part in sports, asses their health, physical activity and physical potential lower than the ones who actively go in for sports. People with visual disabilities, who actively go in for sports, spend less time without physical load, they are active physically more frequently during a week than the ones, who go in for sports inactively. 3. The most significant person, who helped to integrate in social life, was a person having an analogical physical disability for people with visual disabilities, who actively go in for sports. And for the ones, who go in for sports inactively, such persons were parents and (or) relatives. 4. Using applied physical and sports activities, people with visual disabilities, who actively go in for sports, have better opportunities to integrate in society. People with visual disabilities, who go in for sports inactively, who participate in sports activities irregularly, meet such major difficulties of physical and sports activities interfering their integration in society as unsuitable physical environment, underdeveloped transport facilities, lack of sports facilities. 5. The hypothesis that it is possible to improve the psychosocial health and the rates of biosocial skills and physical fitness of people with visual disabilities by applied physical and sports activities was confirmed. People with visual disabilities, who actively go in for sports, gain positive effect on their life quality from active physical activities and sports. [From the publication]