Table 7.
Trial and recruitment characteristics that significantly affected dropout for included stroke rehabilitation RCTs
| Trial feature | Kruskal-Wallis | P | RCTs | Subgrouping (medians) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dropout | Trial characteristic | Publication date | X2(1) = 10.73 | 0.001 | 414 | 2009 or before (3%)* |
| 2010 or after (9%) | ||||||
| Trial size | X2(4) = 25.38 | < 0.001 | 414 | 21 or fewer (0%)* | ||
| 22–34 participants (7%) | ||||||
| 35–60 participants (8%) | ||||||
| 61–99 participants (8%) | ||||||
| 100 ore more (8%) | ||||||
| Recruitment characteristic | Continent of recruitment | X2(2) = 11.91 | 0.003 | 354 | Europe (7%) | |
| Asia (2%) | ||||||
| North America (8%) | ||||||
| Recruitment Strategy | X2(2) = 6.09 | 0.048 | 205 | Screening stroke survivors in the community (9%) | ||
| Screening admissions (8%) | ||||||
| Screening inpatients (3%)* |
* Least dropout
Kruskal–Wallis = appropriate statistics for Kruskal–Wallis test, p = significance level, RCTs = number of RCTs contributing to this finding