1. Measuring Participation Patterns
Chapter 12
Measuring Participation Patterns

2. In Class Activity
Describe what you believe to be the differences between measuring attendance, participation, and involvement
How is this reflected in the client’s treatment plan?
Pros to measuring?
Cons to measuring?
Save your answers – you will be adding to it and turning it in at the end of class

3. Attendance, Participation, and Involvement
Purpose of this chapter is to delineate the differences between attendance, participation, and involvement in leisure and recreation activities

4. Attendance
Counts how many times or how often a client shows up for activities.
Binary count (either/or)
Makes no measure of the amount of effort or the quality of emotional involvement in an activity.
Important, but says little about quality outcomes achieved through treatment
Attendance can be a vital measurement in a variety of ways
Initiation
Compliance
Equipment

5. Participation Linear concept Addresses
Participation in activities foes from harming oneself and others (negative recreation and leisure) to cathartic benefits from activity (positive recreation and leisure)
Addresses
1. The quality of the actions of a client
2. The amount of effort the client puts into the activity

6. Participation vs. Attendance
How you do something, as well as what you do, can make a difference in your health and happiness.
Taking personal responsibility for the effort put out is a key step toward obtaining a healthy leisure lifestyle

7. Participation Measuring Tools
Leisure Assessment Inventory
Leisure Step Up
STILAP
Recreation Participation Data Sheet

8. Attendance and Participation in Research
Attendance and Participation data has the potential to determine a great deal about the involvement trends within a particular population
Messina (2011)
Activity sum as a predictor of participation level
As residents continue to attend programs, their participation level eventually increases
High participation – lower LOS
Low participation – higher LOS

9. Involvement Attendance is binary Participation is linear
Involvement is multi-faceted
Cognitive and emotional state
Neulinger’s leisure as a state of mind

10. Components of Involvement
In research to develop the Assessment of Leisure and Recreation Involvement (LRI) Ragheb reviewed literature to determine how authors in recreation and leisure describe the emotional aspects of involvement.
He found six independent subcomponents of involvement:
Importance of the activity
Pleasure derived from the activity
Interest in the activity
Intensity of, or absorption in, the activity
Centrality of the activity to the individual’s perception of self
Meaning of the activity

11. Another view of Involvement
Ragheb also developed an assessment tool to measure the vitality activities give to the participants – Vitality Through Leisure (VTL)
This assessment turns the question around...
Instead of asking what the participant puts into the activity, VTL asks what the participants are getting out of the activity.

12. Five ways activities energize people
Broaden and Build
Seeing more possibilities in the world
Physical Condition
Increases in physical fitness and energy
Relaxation and Stress Control
Recovery from the Demands of life
Optimal Arousal
Enjoyment of the activities
Personal Betterment and Restoration
Leading to a better personal life

13. Now what!?
Based on what we discussed in lecture, add your additional thoughts and insights to your answers from earlier...
Describe what you believe to be the differences between measuring attendance, participation, and involvement
How is this reflected in the client’s treatment plan?
Pros to measuring?
Cons to measuring?

14. In Class Discussion
Share your thoughts from the previous activity