The Development of Leisure Participation Assessment Tool for the Elderly.
Eun-Hwa Jeong, Eun-Young Yoo, Jong-Bae Kim and 3 others
PMID 33500686WHAT IT FOUND
A new Korean assessment measures how often older adults engage in leisure, how satisfied they are, and what stops them.
It showed strong consistency across items and stable results over two weeks, helping therapists identify meaningful leisure beyond just activity lists.
Key findings
01The tool demonstrated high internal consistency for total items and test-retest reliability over two weeks.
02The interference factors subscale showed low reliability, limiting its use for identifying barriers.
03Participants in their 60s reported significantly more leisure activities and exploration than those in their 70s and 80s.
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How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for OTs
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What it does not show
The interference factors subscale had low reliability (0.458), so it may not accurately identify barriers to leisure. The study only included older adults from three provinces in Korea, limiting generalizability to other cultural or rural contexts. There is no standardized scoring system, so clinicians cannot interpret total scores as a severity level or compare pre-post changes numerically. Participants were community-dwelling and cognitively intact, so the tool is not validated for those with cognitive impairment or living in institutions.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not use the interference factors subscale to diagnose barriers to leisure. It showed low internal consistency (alpha 0.458), meaning the items did not reliably measure the same construct.