Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

Purpose: The purpose of this study to determine the hierarchy of basic needs satisfaction and its association with demographic characteristics of veterans and the disabled athlete in the Khorasan province. 
Methods & Materials: The statistical population of this study was the veterans and the disables athlete of Khorasan-e Razavi province among which 181 were selected randomly as the sample. Measurement Instrument was a questionnaire of 20 questions of basic needs satisfaction in sport (Johan et al, 2011). Face and content validity of questionnaire was accepted after translation by professors Physical Education specialists and by using Cronbach’s alpha test the reliability of questionnaires were found to be 0.83 respectively. The research method is descriptive which has been done through field method. Descriptive scales and Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical tests, T-test, MANOVA, Hoc Scheffe and Friedman were used to analyze the data. 
Results: The result of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test confirmed the normality of data. Results showed that the basic needs satisfaction based on gender and marital status, there is no significant difference between subjects (P>0.05). 
Conclusions: The satisfaction of the basic needs of the veteran and disabled athletes based on disability, the MANOVA test for significant differences between the competences, internal perceived locus of causality, volition and confirmed the relatedness. Between age and basic needs satisfaction a significant positive relationship (r=0.216, P=0.003) was observed. The results showed that Friedman's rank order from first to fifth each of the factors includes: Competence, Relatedness, Choice, Volition and Internal perceived locus of causality.