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Original scientific paper

PROFILES OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (RADL) IN PATIENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

Michael Linden ; Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation at the Charité University Medicine Berlin and the Rehabilitation Center Seehof, Teltow/Berlin, Germany
G. Gehrke ; Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation at the Charité University Medicine Berlin and the Rehabilitation Center Seehof, Teltow/Berlin, Germany
B. Geiselmann ; Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation at the Charité University Medicine Berlin and the Rehabilitation Center Seehof, Teltow/Berlin, Germany


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Abstract

Background: Activities of daily living, play a key role in the measurement of functional health as defined by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and in prevention and treatment of mental or somatic illnesses. From a clinical context it is important to discriminate between basic
“activities of daily living, ADL”, “intentional activities of daily living, IADL”, and “recreational activities of daily living, RADL”. While ADL and IADL have gained much attention in dementia, the elderly, or severe somatic illnesses, there is a lack of research on RADL, which are important in depression, anxiety, or other neurotic disorders.
Subjects and methods: 154 unselected inpatients of a department of behavioral and psychosomatic medicine filled in the “Check List of Recreational Activities” to assess the rates and profiles of RADL.
Results: Patients reported on average 19.3 (s.d. 7.0) activities (range 4 – 40), i.e. males 21.3 (s.d. 6.5, 9 – 34) and females 18.9 (s.d. 7.1, 4 – 40). Most frequent RADL were passive and unspecific activities like “watching tv” (93.4%). Least frequent were activities which need special skills or preparation like ”horse back riding” (0.7%). Low rates were also found for activities which are in the centre of inpatient occupational therapy like “ceramics” (4.7%) or “silk-painting” (2.6%). There are differences between sexes but not in respect to age (18 to 60), sick leave and unemployment, or diagnostic status. When patients were asked what they would
like to do in the future, the same activity profile emerged as when looking at what they had done in the last month
Conclusion: The data give a reference profile for recreational activities, help to define what can be considered a normal frequency and spectrum of RADL, and, by this, can guide therapeutic interventions.

Keywords

ADL; IADL; RADL; ICF; functional health; occupational therapy; ergotherapy

Hrčak ID:

49585

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/49585

Publication date:

25.8.2009.

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