The ‘Checklist of Leisure, Interest and Participation’: Exploring the general population current leisure interests in the 21st century

The ‘Checklist of Leisure, Interest and Participation’: Exploring the general population current leisure interests in the 21st century

Introduction. Activity inventories or checklists are designed to capture a person’s overall leisure profile, routine and understand their interests. There are a variety of checklists including The Modified Interest Checklist, a common tool used by therapists to understand past and present occupational engagement, which was adapted to along the Model of Human Occupation approximately 30 years ago. The aim of the project is to understand if the chosen tool reflected leisure activities and provided a breadth of activities representative of typical engagement in modern society. Method. This study followed an integrated methodological design which was informed a pragmatic approach. This enabled the subjective perspective of the participant. The target population was adult’s 18-65 and was conducted online using Survey Monkey (approximately 15 minutes to complete). The existing Modified Interest Checklist in its current form and answer open ended questions to provide feedback. The tool was then revised to include contemporary leisure occupations (e.g., use of social media, Xbox). A second online survey (approximately 10 minutes) was conducted to validate the ‘Checklist of Leisure Interests and Participation’ (CLIP) and establish its basic psychometric properties. Discussion. A total of 96 participants completed the full survey in round one and 79 in round two. Feedback received from participants in round one identified the checklist would benefit from design and activity changes. Based on the feedback from round one, a taxonomy of activities (such as sports) changes were introduced in round two and instrumental activities of daily living were removed (such as ironing) as they were not perceived as ‘leisure’. Conclusion. Participants responded positively to a newly designed checklist that primarily focussed on leisure activities rather than general interests, which included a variety of occupational areas.

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