Table 2.
Means and SD or medians, range and inter-quartile range for raw scores on productivity measures and macrostructural measures.
| Control (n = 37) |
TBI 3 months (n = 43) |
TBI 6 months (n = 43) |
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| Variables | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
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| Productivity | ||||||
| Words | 84.2 | 35.7 | 72.8 | 47.2 | 67.3 | 36.1 |
| Utterances | 10.3 | 4.1 | 8.9 | 4.7 | 8.5 | 3.2 |
| Speaking time | 29.3 | 12.9 | 35.6 | 18.7 | 33.3 | 17.1 |
| Words/utterance | 8.4 | 2.4 | 7.9 | 2.4 | 7.7 | 2.5 |
| Words/second | 2.9 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 0.6 |
| Macrostructure | ||||||
| Essential stepsa | 6 | 0 (6–6) | 6 | 0–6 (5–6) | 6 | 3–6 (5–6) |
| Optional steps | 7.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 2.4 |
| Low content elementsa | 0 | 0–4 (0–1.5) | 1 | 0–11 (0–3) | 1 | 0–8 (0–3) |
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Median, range and (inter-quartile range) is presented due to skewed distribution.