Types and categories of personal projects: a revelatory means of understanding human occupation.

Choice of activity and the way it is described may have little to do with the presence of disease and may or may not align with predetermined conceptual or practice frameworks. The present study examines data previously collected by use of Personal Projects Analysis (PPA) in order to compare the types of projects listed by people with and without multiple sclerosis and to compare the categories of projects selected by both groups to those pre-established in the literature. Secondary analysis tests the differences and similarities in the types of personal projects between two groups, multiple sclerosis (n = 38) and control group (n = 25), matched for demographic characteristics.