Identifying and Prioritizing Opportunities and Challenges of Sports Activities During Covid-19 Disease and Providing Solutions (A Case study of Sistan and Baluchestan Province)

The purpose of this study was to identify and pri-oritize the opportunities and challenges of sports activities during Covid-19 disease and to provide solutions in Sistan and Baluchestan province. Methods: The method of the present research is based on the purpose of applied research; In terms of nature, exploratory research; In terms of data collection, it is descriptive-survey research and due to the application of Q methodology and grand theory (Glaser), it is mixed research. The statistical population of this study was all sports elites (professors, managers, etc.), people involved in sports decision-making and policy-making in Sistan and Baluchestan province. From the statistical population, 28 people were selected as a sample by the purposeful method. Descriptive statistics were used to classify raw scores, design tables, frequency distribution, and calculate dispersion indices such as mean and standard devi-ation and standard deviation and variance and analyze demo-graphic characteristics as well as the mean of responses. To open the consensus of experts, open, axial, and theoretical coding method, Glaser approach was used. Results: Using factor analysis (Q method), 67 challenges of sports activities during Covid-19 disease were identified. Challenges in 7 distinct mental patterns, respectively: Econ-omists mental pattern, Infrastructures mental pattern, Organ-izational mental pattern, Culturalist mental pattern, Events mental pattern, Athletes mental pattern, and Medias mental pattern, were categorized and prioritized. Conclusion: By exploring the data of interviews with ex-perts through the Glaser approach, 7 concepts were intro-duced as opportunities for sports activities in Sistan and Ba-luchestan province during the Corona period and were pre-sented as a qualitative model. Finally, based on the opinions of provincial experts, solutions were provided for each chal-lenge of sports activities.