Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Department of Sport Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
2 M.A. in leisure time and recreational sports management, Department of Sport Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of the Health Time Bank project based on sports-related issues in the elderly. The research method has a qualitative nature with the data strategy of the foundation and based on the systematic analysis approach and its statistical population included faculty members, experts and specialists in sports sciences and finally 14 people were interviewed by purposive sampling method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview whose validity was assessed using qualitative validation methods and its reliability was 79%. The obtained data were analyzed by the approach of Strauss and Corbin (1998). After coding the data, 135 initial codes, 21 sub-categories and finally 6 main categories were extracted from a total of 14 interviews. 6 main categories including the central phenomenon (special attitude to the elderly health time bank), causal conditions (individual factors, cultural factors and economic factors), underlying factors (planning, support and legal), intervening conditions (legal factors, socio-cultural factors, Hardware factors, technology factors, environmental factors and welfare and health factors), strategies (human, staff, introductory, educational and financial) and consequences (health development, scientific-research development and communication development). According to the results of this research, the Health Time Bank is a new design and Practical in increasing the quality of life and the health of the elderly.
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