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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2020 Feb;34(2):137–157. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1643003

Table 1. Data extraction items.

Participant characteristics

  • Demographic information (e.g., age, sex, handedness, ethnicity)

  • Environmental descriptors (e.g., living environment, social support)

  • Stroke characteristics (e.g., type, time since stroke, severity, cognition)

Language measure

  • Functional communication

  • Aphasia ability/severity

  • Auditory comprehension

  • Spoken language production

  • Reading

  • Writing

Primary dataset level information

  • Design

  • Inclusion/exclusion criteria (e.g., dysarthria, prior stroke)

  • Recruitment dates (or publication)

  • Numbers of participants

  • Country and language

  • Data collection time-point(s)

SLT Intervention (where relevant)

  • Provider

  • Delivery mechanism(s)

  • Context of intervention

  • Duration (total number of days during which therapy was delivered)

  • Intensity (hours of therapy provided on a weekly basis)

  • Frequency (how many sessions provided weekly)

  • Dosage (total number of hours of therapy provided)

  • Tailoring (by difficulty, by functional relevance)

  • Adherence (data capture and actual adherence rates)

  • Theoretical approach

  • Treatment target