How Physically Active Are People with Stroke in Physiotherapy Sessions Aimed at Improving Motor Function? A Systematic Review

Table 3

Summary of the included studies and their findings in relation to therapy duration.

Author/year	Setting	Location	Mean (SD) time since stroke (days)	Number of participants/therapy sessions		Method of observation	Mean total therapy time per therapy session (mins)	Mean active time per therapy session (mins)	Mean % active time per therapy session
				Participants	Therapy sessions
Elson et al. 2009 [5]	Inpatient rehabilitation	Australia	47.3 (30.6)	15	30	Video recording	42; CCT: 53; IT: 31	30; CCT: 37; IT: 30	71; CCT: 71; IT: 72
Lang et al. 2009 [17]	Inpatient rehabilitation	USA and Canada	118 (157)	100	312	Recording of number of repetitions of tasks or movements by researchers	NR	36^¥	NR
Bernhardt et al. 2007 [15]	Acute hospital	Australia	5.6 (NR)	58	84	Behavioural mapping	24	NR	NR
Peurala et al. 2007 [14]	Acute hospital	Finland	8.0 (3.3)	19	NR	Contemporaneous recording by therapists	55	NR	NR
De Wit et al. 2006 [18]	Inpatient rehabilitation	Europe*	NR	30	60	Video recording	60	39^€	65
Kuys et al. 2006 [16]	Inpatient rehabilitation	Australia	161 (405)	30	NR	Video recording	52	32	62
Ada et al. 1999 [19]	Inpatient rehabilitation	Australia	46.9 (52.9)	16	NR	Behavioural mapping	64	27	42

Key: ^¥average amount of time in which the repetitions were observed in a therapy session. Total therapy session including the rest breaks was not provided.
*UK, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland.
^€mean amount of active time in an hour session.
NR: not reported or not able to be extracted from published data, SD: standard deviation, CCT: circuit class therapy, IT: individual therapy, and USA: United States of America.