Investigation of Physical Activity Enjoying And Quality of Life of Parents Who Have Mentally Disabled Children

In this study, it was aimed to investigate physical activity enjoying and quality of life of individuals with mentally disability children.. The study was to create by parents of female (N = 72) and male (N = 35) with mentally disability children in two special education center schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Mersin. World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale-Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) and Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PAES) were used to measure the quality of life of the parents. After the descriptive statistical procedures were applied in the analysis of the obtained data, t test and ANOVA and Mann - Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to measure the differences between the variables. Significance was accepted as p