| Study | Reason for exclusion |
|---|---|
| Bell 2005 | No specific cognitive rehabilitation component in the telephonic intervention. |
| Bertens 2015 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Bjorkdahl 2013 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Bornhofen 2008b | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Bourgeois 2007 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Bovend’Eerdt 2010 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Braverman 1999 | No control group ‐ intervention arm of another randomized controlled trial described in this paper. |
| Couillet 2010 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Culley 2010 | Non‐randomized study design. |
| Dahlberg 2007 | Participants with impairment in communication skills due to TBI. Intervention was targeted at improving communication skills. |
| Dawson 2013 | > 50% of participants were not allocated randomly. |
| Dirette 1999 | No occupational outcome measured (only computer tasks). |
| Dou 2006 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Fish 2007 | Non‐randomized study design. |
| Hallock 2016 | Systematic review of randomized and non‐randomized studies. |
| Hewitt 2006 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Hildebrandt 2006 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Kaschel 2002 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Kurowski 2013 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Lannin 2014 | Intervention did not include a component of cognitive rehabilitation. |
| Man 2006a | Quasi‐experimental design. |
| Man 2006b | Quasi‐experimental design. |
| Neistadt 1992 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Neumann 2015 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Niemann 1990 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Niemeier 2010 | No specific cognitive rehabilitation component in the vocational intervention. |
| Park 2015 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Rath 2003 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Richter 2015 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Ryan 1988 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Shum 2011 | No primary occupational outcome measured. |
| Spikman 2010 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Tam 2004 | Quasi‐experimental design. |
| Thickpenny‐Davis 2007 | No occupational outcome measured. |
| Tiersky 2005 | No specific cognitive rehabilitation component in the (combined CBT and Cognitive rehabilitation) intervention. |
| Tlustos 2016 | Participants were adolescents. |
| Tornas 2016 | Population included non‐TBI. |
| Trexler 2016 | Intervention did not include any component of cognitive rehabilitation. |
| Yip 2013 | Population not specified as traumatic aetiology for brain injury. |
TBI: traumatic brain injury. ABI: acquired brain injury