4. Sensitivity analysis for strength of correlation of imputed standard deviations for change scores in our secondary outcome naming nouns.
Analysis | Studies with imputed SDs for change scores | Strength of mean correlation for experimental and control group | Analysis results |
1.3 | Polanowska 2013; Spielmann 2016; Turkeltaub 2017 | 0.976 (observed) | SMD 0.42, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.66; 298 participants; 11 studies; I² = 0% |
0.8 | SMD 0.31, 95% CI 0.07 to 0.54; 298 participants; 11 studies; I² = 0% | ||
0.6 | SMD 0.29, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.52; 298 participants; 11 studies; I² = 0% | ||
1.4 | Spielmann 2016 | 1.0 (observed) | SMD 0.87, 95% CI 0.25 to 1.48; 80 participants; 2 studies; I² = 32% |
0.8 | SMD 0.69, 95% CI −0.40 to 1.77; 80 participants; 2 studies; I² = 76% | ||
0.6 | SMD 0.66, 95% CI −0.48 to 1.80; 80 participants; 2 studies; I² = 78% |
SD: standard deviation
The correlation coefficients have been obtained from Meinzer 2016, which presented both total values and change scores for our secondary outcome naming performance in naming nouns.