Meghdad Teymouri; Hassan Daneshmandi; Ali Shamsi Majelan
Abstract
Introduction: Throwing events, shot put, javelin, discus, and club with 67 medals are very important at Paralympic games. The purpose of this study was to determine psychometric validation of physical fitness and anthropometric test battery to design sitting throwers talent identification and development ...
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Introduction: Throwing events, shot put, javelin, discus, and club with 67 medals are very important at Paralympic games. The purpose of this study was to determine psychometric validation of physical fitness and anthropometric test battery to design sitting throwers talent identification and development tool.Methods: 10 national sitting throwers, 15 national coaches, and 99 Iranian sitting throwers (52 male and 46 female) filled out our questionnaire and participated at this study. Both of quality and quantity face and content validity, construct validity (confirmatory factor analysis) and reliability of test battery were analyzed by SPSS 17 and LISREL 8.50.Results: Our results were shown both of reliability (p<0.05) and face validity (t>1.96) are at the significant level and impact score of all test for determination of face validity are significant and higher than 1.5. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (t>1.96,t<-1.96) and Fitting indexes results confirm our questionnaire. Also, results of content reliability of tests were indicated that two tests of both of power and strength and anthropometric basic measurement tests can be applied at sitting throwers talent identification and development tool.Conclusions: Then, coaches and experts of Paralympic games with our results not only utilize correct talent identification tests but also prevent multiple injuries with taking off to reach elite levels.
