Table 6 Themes describing outcomes of the CoP, extracts from logbooks, number of extracts per theme and number of participants mentioning each theme

Acquiring knowledge about clinical tools

I learned about the Better Conversations with Aphasia web site, which I did not know about.

Reflecting on one’s practice

 - Reflecting on topics of the CoP

I think that group therapy is an interesting avenue. It is close to normal life and allows one to meet other people. It can reduce isolation and directly enhance social participation.

 - Building identity through interaction

I realized that we all aim for social participation somehow.

Noticing a gap between evidence and one’s practice

I lack the structure that would reveal the expectations and goals of the patients and those of their families.

Preparing to change one’s practice

After reading Sherratt et al., 2011, I realized that giving information about aphasia and its related difficulties to the person with aphasia and his/her family could become a more important therapy goal in my acute care practice.

Changing one’s practice

This [an online meeting] inspired me to create a general document for goal-setting with the patient and to give it to him/her afterwards. I used it for the first time today with one patient: it was super interesting. As she lives by herself, I never really talked about her relatives but after reading the article [Hersh et al., 2012] and creating a checkbox labelled “Relatives” in my goal-setting document, it brought many interesting points, including the relatives’ need to have more information about aphasia.