COMPARING HEALTH AWARENESS OF SOME INDIVIDUAL SPORT PLAYERS

The idea of the study emerged from the problem of lack in concern with the health aspect for some individual sports which led to lack of health awareness for players of these sports. They do not have complete awareness of their health and healthy behavior. The study set the following goals to be achieved: - To define health awareness of some individual sport players in Al Najaf Al Ashraf - Define differences in health awareness among some individual sport players in Al Najaf Al Ashraf In order to achieve these goals, the researchers determined population of the study consisting of some individual sport players in Al Najaf Al Ashraf for the sport season of 2014 ? 2015 in the following sports: (body building, wrestling, boxing and weight lifting). They were (80) players, while the sample of the study was (60) players constituting a percentage of (75%). The researchers used the health awareness scale which aims to define the level of health awareness for the sample of the study prepared by (Abdelnasir Qaddomi: 2009). After deriving scientific principles of the scale, it was distributed on the sample of the study to reach the following conclusions: 1- Most individual sport players enjoy average amount of health awareness. 2- The comparative study resulted in distinction for the sake of body building athletes in health awareness among individual sports. Accordingly, the researchers ended their study with many recommendations they found crucial and related to solutions of the study problem. Keywords: (Health awareness ? Individual sports)