Table 6.

Themes describing outcomes of the CoP, extracts from logbooks, number of extracts per theme and number of participants mentioning each theme

Outcomes	Extracts (n = 130)	Total No of extracts per theme	Total No of participants mentioning the theme
Acquiring knowledge about clinical tools	I learned about the Better Conversations with Aphasia web site, which I did not know about.	34	13
Reflecting on one’s practice
- Reflecting on topics of the CoP	I think that group therapy is an interesting avenue. It is close to normal life and allows one to meet other people. It can reduce isolation and directly enhance social participation.	21	10
- Building identity through interaction	I realized that we all aim for social participation somehow.	37	11
Noticing a gap between evidence and one’s practice	I lack the structure that would reveal the expectations and goals of the patients and those of their families.	8	6
Preparing to change one’s practice	After reading Sherratt et al., 2011, I realized that giving information about aphasia and its related difficulties to the person with aphasia and his/her family could become a more important therapy goal in my acute care practice.	18	7
Changing one’s practice	This [an online meeting] inspired me to create a general document for goal-setting with the patient and to give it to him/her afterwards. I used it for the first time today with one patient: it was super interesting. As she lives by herself, I never really talked about her relatives but after reading the article [Hersh et al., 2012] and creating a checkbox labelled “Relatives” in my goal-setting document, it brought many interesting points, including the relatives’ need to have more information about aphasia.	3	3