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- Title
Assessing the Social Effect of Therapeutic Recreation Summer Camp for Adolescents With Chronic Illness.
- Authors
Alison, Jared; Negley, Sandra; Sibthorp, Jim
- Abstract
Over 2 million adolescents in the United States have a form of chronic illness and frequently have decreased levels of social self-efficacy and social performance. The summer camp industry and the field of therapeutic recreation have been found to have positive influences upon these social factors. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a therapeutic recreation-based summer camp on social self-efficacy levels and social performance with peers among adolescents with chronic illness. Seventy-nine adolescents with neurofibromatosis participated in two sessions of summer camp. Campers were assigned to either a week of camp following a traditional summer camp model or a week of camp following the therapeutic recreation process. The Social Self-Efficacy Scale and an adapted Social Skills Questionnaire were used for measurements. The first hypothesis looked at social self-efficacy and was not supported. The second hypothesis looked at social performance and was supported.
- Subjects
UTAH; ANALYSIS of covariance; CAMPS; CHILDREN'S health; CLINICAL trials; DOCUMENTATION; GOAL (Psychology); INTERPERSONAL relations in adolescence; INTERVIEWING; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; SCIENTIFIC observation; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATIONAL therapy for teenagers; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SCALES (Weighing instruments); SELF-efficacy; ADOLESCENT health; HUMAN services programs; BEHAVIORAL objectives (Education); REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 2013, Vol 47, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0040-5914
- Publication type
Article