Table 1.
Description of nurses (N) and the residents with aphasia (R) including measures of comprehension in Token test [48] and verbal fluency [49] and amount of data from each dyad.
| Nurses | N-1 | N-2 | N-3 | N-4 |
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| Sex/Age | F/55 | F/55 | F/40 | F/36 |
| Time working with R | 3 years | 19 months | 9 months | 1 year |
| Education, in years | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
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| Residents with aphasia | R-1 | R-2 | R-3 | R-4 |
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| Sex/Age | M/72 | F/91 | F/82 | F/93 |
| Type of aphasiaa | Severe, global aphasia | Severe, global aphasia | Severe, global aphasia | Severe, global aphasia |
| Time post onset | 8 years | 17 months | 10 months | 12 months |
| Time in residential care facility | 3 years | 19 months | 12 months | 12 months |
| Score in Token Test | 69 | 97 | 36 | 68 |
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| Score in word fluency tasks | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/0 |
| Amount of analysed data (in minutes) | 70 | 50 | 90 | 50 |
aAphasia type according to the Boston classification system.