Survey report on awareness and participation behavior in disabled sports and disability understanding after Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
Kotomi Shiota
PMID 29410556WHAT IT FOUND
Most of 220 respondents were not interested in watching, joining, or volunteering for disabled sports, and 76.8% reported no behavior change after Tokyo's bid.
Many had never studied disability and felt unconfident about disability knowledge.
Key findings
01Most respondents were not interested in watching (72.2%), participating (76.8%), or volunteering (71.8%) in disabled sports.
02After the bid decision, 76.8% reported no behavioral change, and the largest reported change was seeking information (15.5%).
03Many respondents lacked disability knowledge: 68.6% had never studied disabilities and 84.6% had no confidence in their knowledge.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The survey did not include disabled people, so it cannot describe their experience of sport or barriers. It used an internet panel, and the authors note this can over-represent highly educated and high-income people. The response rate was 33.2%, and 11 of the 231 responses were excluded because consent was not obtained. It was a one-time survey, so it cannot show that the Olympic bid caused any change. It measured self-reported awareness and behavior, not patient outcomes, function, or the effect of any treatment. The income filter selected people with annual income greater than 5,720,000 yen, so the sample is not a general population snapshot.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that health professionals can improve disability sport participation from this paper. It reports a survey of public awareness, not a tested intervention, and disabled people did not take part.