Interaction between Nursing Staff and Residents with Aphasia in Long-Term Care: A Mixed Method Case Study

Table 1

Description of nurses (N) and the residents with aphasia (R) including measures of comprehension in Token test [48] and verbal fluency [49] and amount of data from each dyad.

Nurses	N-1	N-2	N-3	N-4
Sex/Age	F/55	F/55	F/40	F/36
Time working with R	3 years	19 months	9 months	1 year
Education, in years	11	12	12	12
Residents with aphasia	R-1	R-2	R-3	R-4
Sex/Age	M/72	F/91	F/82	F/93
Type of aphasia	Severe, global aphasia	Severe, global aphasia	Severe, global aphasia	Severe, global aphasia
Time post onset	8 years	17 months	10 months	12 months
Time in residential care facility	3 years	19 months	12 months	12 months
Score in Token Test	69	97	36	68
(max: 261)
Score in word fluency tasks	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/0/0	0/0/0
Amount of analysed data (in minutes)	70	50	90	50

Aphasia type according to the Boston classification system.