Motor Imagery Experiences and Use: Asking Patients after Stroke Where, When, What, Why, and How They Use Imagery: A Qualitative Investigation
Table 3
Patient study characteristics.
Int. number
Patient number
Age
Gender
Stroke
Affected brain area
Time since stroke (yrs)
MMSE
EBI
BBS
KVIQ vis. 1st inter.
KVIQ kin. 1st int.
Lines of text 1st int.
Lines of text 2nd int.
Duration in min 1st int.
Duration in min 2nd int.
1
6
61
Female
CVI
Right
1.3
28
62
43
48
48
234 (102)
163 (147)
39.1
23.4
2
13
53
Male
CVI
Left
1.7
27
62
55
29
27
251 (130)
141 (116)
44.3
23.3
3
15
31
Female
ICB
Left
2.6
27
62
48
35
25
230 (73)
58 (56)
30.0
12.0
4
16
51
Male
ICB
Right
2.9
30
62
55
45
40
232 (128)
149 (104)
33.5
27.4
5
19
63
Male
CVI
Bilateral
2.6
25
63
55
43
46
258 (123)
97 (89)
38.6
15.4
6
21
82
Female
CVI
Right
6.4
27
63
45
30
50
131 (53)
113 (108)
37.2
22.2
7
32
85
Male
CVI
left
3.8
26
62
55
45
43
110 (53)*
121 (89)
N/A*
33.5
8
33
54
Male
CVI
Left
3.3
28
64
56
50
10
223 (129)
186 (178)
46.4
28.1
9
37
45
Male
CVI
Right
3.4
23
57
49
50
50
362 (193)
N/A
47.1
N/A
10
38
71
Male
CVI
Left
3.7
29
62
56
34
21
192 (109)
91 (78)
33.1
15.2
11
43
64
Male
CVI
Right
6.2
23
54
43
33
21
149 (72)
N/A
34.5
N/A
Numbers in bold indicate patients who practiced a type of imagery before study participation. Numbers in brackets indicate the amount of lines of the complete interview particularly related to MI. Int. = interview, yrs = years, MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination, EBI = extended Barthel index, KVIQ = Kinaesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire, vis. = visual, kin = kinaesthetic, min = minutes, N/A = not applicable, *= the first interview of this patient could not be recorded completely due to technical problems.
