Communicating simply, but not too simply: reporting of participants and speech and language interventions for aphasia after stroke
Creators: name: MC Brady
name: M Ali
name: K VandenBerg
name: LJ Williams
name: LR Williams
name: M Abo
name: F Becker
name: A Bowen
name: C Brandenburg
name: C Breitenstein
name: S Bruehl
name: DA Copland
name: TB Cranfill
name: M Di Pietro-Bachmann
name: P Enderby
name: J Fillingham
name: FL Galli
name: M Gandolfi
name: B Glize
name: E Godecke
name: N Hawkins
name: K Hilari
name: J Hinckley
name: S Horton
name: D Howard
name: P Jaecks
name: E Jefferies
name: LM Jesus
name: M Kambanaros
name: EK Kang
name: EM Khedr
name: A Pak-Hin Kong
name: T Kukkonen
name: M Laganaro
name: MA Lambon-Ralph
name: AC Laska
name: B Leemann
name: AP Leff
name: RR Lima
name: A Lorenz
name: B MacWhinney
name: RS Marshall
name: F Mattioli
name: İ Maviş
name: M Meinzer
name: R Nilipour
name: E Noé
name: NJ Paik
name: R Palmer
name: I Papathanasiou
name: BF Patricio
name: IP Martins
name: C Price
name: TP Jakovac
name: E Rochon
name: Rose, Miranda
name: C Rosso
name: I Rubi-Fessen
name: MB Ruiter
name: C Snell
name: B Stahl
name: JP Szaflarski
name: SA Thomas
name: M Van De Sandt-Koenderman
name: I Van Der Meulen
name: L Worrall
name: HH Wright
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor &amp; Francis Group. Purpose: Speech and language pathology (SLP) for aphasia is a complex intervention delivered to a heterogeneous population within diverse settings. Simplistic descriptions of participants and interventions in research hinder replication, interpretation of results, guideline and research developments through secondary data analyses. This study aimed to describe the availability of participant and intervention descriptors in existing aphasia research datasets. Method: We systematically identified aphasia research datasets containing ≥10 participants with information on time since stroke and language ability. We extracted participant and SLP intervention descriptions and considered the availability of data compared to historical and current reporting standards. We developed an extension to the Template for Intervention Description and Replication checklist to support meaningful classification and synthesis of the SLP interventions to support secondary data analysis. Result: Of 11, 314 identified records we screened 1131 full texts and received 75 dataset contributions. We extracted data from 99 additional public domain datasets. Participant age (97.1%) and sex (90.8%) were commonly available. Prior stroke (25.8%), living context (12.1%) and socio-economic status (2.3%) were rarely available. Therapy impairment target, frequency and duration were most commonly available but predominately described at group level. Home practice (46.3%) and tailoring (functional relevance 46.3%) were inconsistently available. Conclusion : Gaps in the availability of participant and intervention details were significant, hampering clinical implementation of evidence into practice and development of our field of research. Improvements in the quality and consistency of participant and intervention data reported in aphasia research are required to maximise clinical implementation, replication in research and the generation of insights from secondary data analysis. Systematic review registration: PROSPERO CRD42018110947.