BioMed Research International / 2016 / Article / Tab 1 / Review Article
Cognitive Rehabilitation in Patients with Gliomas and Other Brain Tumors: State of the Art Table 1 Principal characteristics of study population.
Investigators (year, name) Design Population Maschio et al. (2015) [13 ] Observational study 16 4 HGG, 2 GBM, 5 LGG, 2 meningioma (MEN), 3 metastasis (MET), related epilepsy Age > 18 y Yang et al. (2014) [14 ] Randomized control trial 38 5 glioblastoma (GBM), 2 astrocytoma (AST), 10 MEN, 6 MET, 15 other Zucchella et al. (2013) [15 ] Randomized control trial 58 25 HGG, 7 LGG, 16 MEN, 5 other Hassler et al. (2010) [16 ] Clinical trial 11 6 GBM, 5 LGG Gehring et al. (2009) [17 ] Randomized control trial 140 117 LGG, 23 HGG Age > 18 y Locke et al. (2008) [18 ] Randomized control trial 19 patient-caregiver dyads 13 HGG, 6 LGG before or upon initiation of radiation therapy Age > 18 y; presence of 1 caregiver Sherer et al. (1997) [19 ] Retrospective study 13 1 GBM, 9 LGG, 1 embryonal choriocarcinoma, 1 pineoblastoma, 1 anaplastic ependymoma
Principal characteristics of studies taken into consideration are in chronological order of publication. HGG: high-grade glioma; GBM: glioblastoma; MEN: meningioma; MET: metastasis; AST: astrocytoma; LGG: low-grade glioma.