I tried to investigate “Recreation Test” of 135 male and 52 female mental patients recieving occupational therapy. As a result, it was found that a number of male patients incline to like single out-door sports while female patients are interested in indoor amusements.
Of course, there are several differences by age among them. As a whole, if mental patients selected their special amusement, they would like to participate them mostly. However there are some patients who dislike “PARTICIPATING” although they select.
Mental patients for a short period of hospitalization contract no hospitalism, appear vigorous, and are having a hope of to be discharged, and their “Participation Score” show higher, I can find mental patients for a long period of hospitalization are falling into hospitalism, have no activity. I consider they should be given with an aspiration, and be let with case-work under social and familiar connections.
I discover patients on locked ward are having higher “Participation Scores” because they enjoy their recreation for limited times. As patients on open ward have so much hours in hospital life, they can not afford to make use of time wisely.
Occationally it is neccessary that we have to lead them under limited times as much as possible.
