Table 2.

Description of the study sample

Interview	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	C9
Attributes of the caregiver
Age	53	59	41	61	26	38	36	75	54
Gender	female	female	female	female	female	male	male	male	female
Relationship to the patient	mother	wife	wife	wife	half-sister	son	son	husband	wife
Educational background	middle school	university degree	middle school	middle school	university degree	university degree	university degree	university degree	middle school
Country of data acquisition	Germany	Germany	Germany	Germany	Italy	Italy	Italy	Germany	Germany
Health Professional	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
Attributes of the patient
Age	33	72	41	61	37	62	62b	77	66
Gender	male	male	male	male	female	female	female b	female	male
Cause of brain injury	TBI	HIE	HIE	HIE	TBI	Vascular	Vascular b	Aspiration pneumonia	Anoxia
Duration of DoC (weeks)	33	21	12	26	18	31	34	20	11
Clinical diagnosis based on CRS-R	MCS-	MCS-	Coma	UWS	UWS	UWS	UWS b	MCS-	UWS
Best CRS-R score	7	9	4	4	6	8	8 b	8	5
HD-EEG Result	MCS	MCS	MCS	MCS	UWS	MCS	MCS b	MCS	UWS

^bsame patient for C6 and C7

TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury, HIE = Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, MCS = Minimally Conscious State, UWS = Unresponsive Wakefulness State, CRS-R = Coma Recovery Scale - Revised