Determining techniques to attract and increase citizen,s participation in sport for all and recreational sport programs (evidence from Urmia)

Sport for all is a movement promoting the Olympic ideal proposing that sport is a human right for all individuals regardless of race, social class and sex. The purpose of this study was to determine the techniques to attract and increase participation of Urmia citizens in sport for all and recreational sport programs. The statistical populations of this research were all citizens in Urmia, more than 20 years old and at least a diploma from school. Four-hundred citizens were sampled randomly through stratified random sampling method. The instrument used for data collection purposes in this research was a researcher-made questionnaire with a highly acceptable reliability estimate of (r=0/81) tabulated through the test-retest method. Finding showed that the offered solutions about mass media, sport facilities and complexes, sport managers and programmers and education play a significant role in attracting and increasing the participation of Urmia citizens in sport for all and recreational sport programs. Therefore, allocating more time for sport in media, planning parks and recreation courts to reinforce unstructured activities such as walking and cycling; motivating citizen to attend sport activities free of charge; and the use of the expert coaches are proposed as some techniques that can improve public participation in sport for all and recreational programs.