Social Participation of People with Chronic Mental Health Needs: Building Horizontal and Vertical Forms of Social Capital

Table 2

Social participation average support hours per consumer per month.

Support type	Support-level group
	Low	Medium	High	Total
Total consumers	2,707	2,715	111	5,533
% of consumers	48.9%	49.1%	2.0%	100.0%
Support type	Average support hours per consumer per month
Support offered as group activities	1	9.7	42.6	8.4
Social activities	1.3	6.6	35.5	5.4
Travel	1.8	5.9	35.9	5.1
Daily living skills	1.5	5.6	20.5	4.5
Educational, vocational activities or work	0.3	0.9	1.8	0.7
Family connections	0.1	0.4	2.5	0.3

Source: MDSV1 (n = 4,619) and MDSV2 (n = 2,880) monthly averages to January 2020 (total n = 5,533 including double counting of consumers who were in both MDS versions). Support-level group as defined by program managers: low = under 5 hours per week, medium = 5 hours per day to 5 hours per week, and high = more than 5 hours per day. Adapted from Purcal et al. [13]. Note. Support level based on average support per consumer over the support period.