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Table 1 Demographic data

From: Patients’ and professionals’ perspectives on the consideration of patients’ convenient therapy periods as part of personalised rehabilitation: a focus group study with patients and therapists from inpatient neurological rehabilitation

Patients

Therapists

Total

23

Total

18

Female n (%)

7 (30)

Female n (%)

14 (78)

Male n (%)

16 (70)

Male n (%)

4 (22)

Median age in years (IQR)

54 (48–75)

Median age in years (IQR)

37 (28–43)

Health condition

Profession

 Epilepsy n (%)

2 (9)

Music therapist n (%)

2 (11)

 Multiple sclerosis n (%)

3 (13)

Occupational therapist n (%)

5 (28)

 Vascular syndromes of brain in cerebrovascular diseases including stroke n (%)

10 (44)

Physiotherapist n (%)

6 (33)

 Cervical disc disorders n (%)

1 (4)

Speech therapist n (%)

4 (22)

 Unspecified rheumatism n (%)

1 (4)

Art therapist n (%)

1 (6)

 Difficulty in walking n (%)

4 (18)

Median work experience in years (IQR)

5 (2–11)

 Intracranial injury n (%)

1 (4)

  

 Sensorimotor impairment n (%)

1 (4)

  

Median time since onset in years (IQR)

1 (0–5)

  
  1. IQR interquartile range, n number, % percentage