Awareness of community regarding benefits of sports participation

Sports activities play very important role in overall development of its participants including physical, mental, social, emotional, cultural, psychological and spiritual development. Taking part in these activities develop the traits such as cooperation, confidence, sportsmanship, tolerance and healthy habits, which leads to character building. Keeping ahead the benefits of sports participation a study was conducted to measure the level of awareness of the benefits of sports participation among community members. The community comprised of Parents, Teachers, Students and Alumni. A structured questionnaire on three point Likert scale was developed and utilized for collection of data from 426 respondents selected through stratified sampling and random sampling technique in D.I.Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan's. The results of the study showed that majority of respondents are well aware about the benefits of sports.