2.7.6. Participation in Health-Promoting Activities
To study participation in health-promoting activities (PHPA) in everyday life, a new instrument was created and tested. The aim was to capture the dimension of engagement in everyday activity—a dimension that was perceived to be missing in the other questionnaires, but relevant for the intervention. The questionnaire contained 10 items on perceptions of health and other experiences in everyday activities, such as meaning, joy, pleasure, creativity, happiness, and positive challenges. Each item was scored with a 5-point scale on the frequency of participation in different activities during the last month (1 = No, I usually do not participate in this kind of activity, 2 = Sometimes, less often than once a week, 3 = Often, 1–2 times a week, 4 = Regularly, three or more times a week, 5 = Daily).