Table 4.
Quantitative ratings from monitoring progress forms alongside qualitative comments from telephone support questionnaires
| Themes | Interest (%) | Communication (%) | Enjoyment (%) | Mood (%) | Overall rating | Positive comments | Negative comments | Difficultya (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Games | H (67) | H (67) | H (67) | H (67) | H | Good, successful session | Too heavy, cannot be used indoors, person does not like skittles | M/L (67) |
| Word Association | H (100) | H (67) | H (67) | H (100) | H | Best session, fun, easy but gave the person confidence, did well in the session | L (67) | |
| Word Games | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H | Good, fun, gave the person confidence, word grid not easy but enjoyable | Word search provided looks too difficult, jumbled letter grid looks too difficult | L (75) |
| Thinking Cards | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H | Good fun, amusing | Too easy | L (100) |
| Childhood | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H | Interesting images of childhood toys | Games shown in images obscure, difficult to locate photographs | M/L (100) |
| Quiz | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H | Fun, enjoyed the exercise but didn’t do very well, did well at music quiz | L (100) | |
| Faces & Scenes | H (100) | H (100) | H/M (67) | H (83) | H | Enjoyed looking at images, images brought back happy memories, stimulated discussion | Not as interested in faces as scenes, questions for scenes activity difficult | L (67) |
| Sound | H (100) | H (100) | M/L (100) | H (100) | H | Had fun listening to the music, lot of discussion generated, types of music activity better, session went well | Difficult due to problems with hearing, clips too short, too easy, too difficult to identify instruments | H (67) |
| Number Games | H (50) | H/M (100) | M/L (100) | H (100) | H | Person did well with dominoes | Not interested in dominoes or cards, person found the sessions hard | L (75) |
| Useful Tips | M (60) | H (80) | H/M (80) | H (83) | H | Created a lot of discussion, session went very well | Activity is ‘silly’ | L (80) |
| Art Discussion | H/M (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H (100) | H | Good, lots of discussion | L (100) | |
| Visual Clips | H (100) | H (100) | M-H (100) | H (100) | H | Interesting | Controversial adverts too difficult | L (100) |
| Current Affairs | H (50) | H (50) | M (50) | H (75) | H | Person had no idea of world events | M (50) | |
| My Life | M (100) | H (83) | M (67) | H (100) | H/M | Family tree challenging but enjoyable, good questions on game board, loved old photos, | Not interested in family tree, images of occupations need to be clearer | L (67) |
| Categorising Objects | M (67) | M (67) | H (67) | H (100) | H/M | Enjoyed activity and gave lots of reasons and ideas, discussion beneficial, odd one out cards easy and swift, positive session | L (100) | |
| Household Treasures | M (67) | H (67) | M (100) | H (100) | H/M | Good, happy to identify pairs and discuss images, easy but created a lot of discussion | Difficult to identify old and new objects, topics did not interest the person | L (100) |
| Slogans | M (100) | M (100) | L (100) | H (100) | H/M | Logos enjoyable | Logos look too difficult, slogans too difficult and too old | H (100) |
| Using Money | M/L (67) | M (67) | M (67) | H (67) | M | Enjoyed talking about currency, very good | Not interesting, no idea of value of money | L (67) |
| Orientation | M (71) | M (57) | L (57) | L (57) | M/L | World map interesting | Did not like looking at maps, too difficult, not interesting or engaging, images of landmarks difficult to recognize | L (57) |
| Food | L (67) | H (67) | L (67) | H (67) | Mixed | Images very clear | Difficult to recognize some types of food | H (50) |
| Being Creative | H (40) | L (60) | H (40) | L (60) | Mixed | Not interesting, person has never done anything creative | L (100) |
Ratings of ‘not at all’ and ‘a little’ classified as ‘low’ and shown abbreviated as ‘L’ , ratings of ‘moderately’ as ‘moderate’ , shown abbreviated as ‘M’ , and ‘quite a bit’ or ‘extremely’ as ‘high’ , abbreviated as ‘H’
aFor ‘difficulty’ , ‘high’ indicates most difficult