Awareness of Professional Amputee Footballers With Physical Disabilities About Social Security and the Necessary Training in This Regard

The aim of this study is to research the awareness levels of professional amputee football players with physical disabilities on social security (health) and to evaluate the results according to their socio-demographic characteristics. The sample of the study was conducted with the participation of 123 physically disabled professional amputee football players who play sports in clubs in Turkey. Participation is voluntary. A personal information form to determine demographic characteristics and a scale developed by Amcaoğlu (2015) to measure the awareness of professional athletes about social security were used. The data obtained were analyzed through the SPSS 22.0 package program. In the evaluation of the data, "Mann-Whitney U test" and "Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (K-W ANOVA)" tests and differences between groups and "Dunn Bonferroni" test were used. While a statistically significant difference is not seen according to the age groups, licensed football playing time and type of health institution visited when a health problem is encountered of professional amputee football players with physical disabilities (p>0.05), a statistically significant difference is seen according to educational status, duration of doing sports and social security status (p<0.05). As a result of the study, it is seen that the awareness levels of professional amputee football players with physical disabilities on social security (health) are good, at the desired level and there are not many differences between them.