Strategies and Programs for Development of Sport for All in Iran

The paper is to study the strategies and programs for development of sport for all in Iran. Research method in terms of the purpose was practical and in view of the nature of the research data was exploratory mixed design. For qualitative section, 16 executives and experts of sport for all were considered as statistical population and based on the targeted sampling were collected. Data were gathered through interviews and coded and analyzed by Streubert and Carpenter’s method (2011).The statistical populations in the quantitative section were the sport for all federation managers, the heads of the federation committees, the heads of federation-sponsored associations and the heads of the sport for all departments of the provinces (200 people). Samples were selected randomly. The researcher-made questionnaire was a tool for collecting research data at this stage. The items of this questionnaire were extracted from the systematic interviews with the managers and executives of sport for all. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was approved by the professors, structural validity was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.83).Data analysis in this section was done by SPSS software with Wilcoxon Test. In qualitative section the results showed that the strategies and programs for the development of sport for all in Iran including organizational strategies, create culture, economic solutions and based on research. According to the results in the quantitative section there was significant difference between the current and desired status in methods of providing solutions and strategies programs for the development of sport for all in Iran.