Obesity and its relationship with smoking among people with motor disabilities in Palestine

The study aimed to identify the prevalence of obesity and its relationship with smoking among people with motor disabilities in Palestine, this study applied in the summer of 2015. The researcher studied conducting depending on the descriptive method on a sample of 100 individuals with motor disabilities of both genders, 50 males and 50 females. They have been chosen randomly. The researcher used Mosher BMI (Body Mass Index) to account for individuals who suffer from obesity to measure the prevalence of obesity and the sample are classified into smokers and non-smokers to find a relationship between smoking and obesity using statistical software packages (SPSS). The study results showed that the obesity rate has reached (21%) and morbid obesity (4%), and the results showed that there was no statistically significant relationship at the significance level (α≤0.05) between obesity and smoking among the physically disabled in Palestine. A number of recommendations, including work on disability awareness with the dangers of obesity and the factors that help to spread. Keywords: Obesity, The Physically Disabled, Smoking.