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Table 1.

Participants characteristics

Study	Country	n	Group	Participants	Sex (male/female)	Age (SD)—years	Mean (SD)—days poststroke at start of intervention
Outermans et al. 2010 [26]	Netherlands	43	C	21	17/4	56 (9)	24 (8)
Outermans et al. 2010 [26]	Netherlands	43	E	22	19/3	57 (9)	23 (8)
MacKay-Lyons et al. 2013 [27]	Canada	50	C	26	14/12	59 (13)	23 (4)
MacKay-Lyons et al. 2013 [27]	Canada	50	E	24	15/9	62 (15)	23 (6)
Holleran et al. 2014 [23]	USA	12	E	12	8/4	52 (13)	96 (54) *
Leddy et al. 2016 [30]	USA	24	C	12	8/4	61 (10)	89 (40)
Leddy et al. 2016 [30]	USA	24	E	12	9/3	55 (12)	108 (57)
Hornby et al. 2016 [28]	USA	32	C	17	12/5	60 (9.2)	89 (44)
Hornby et al. 2016 [28]	USA	32	E	15	12/3	57 (12)	114 (56)
Mahtani et al. 2017 [41]	USA	36	C	13	9/4	61 (9.3)	88 (41)
Mahtani et al. 2017 [41]	USA	36	E	23	16/7	54 (12)	106 (57)
Moore et al. 2020 [24]	Norway	110	C	56	29/27	74 (14)	15 (11)
Moore et al. 2020 [24]	Norway	110	E	54	35/19	73 (10)	13 (10)
Henderson et al. 2022 [25]	USA	257	E	257	158/99	62 (9.5) **	13 (9) **
Klassen et al. 2020 [29]	Canada	73	C	24	14/10	58 (13)	26 (11)
Klassen et al. 2020 [29]	Canada	73	E	49	30/19	57 (11)	28 (10)
Brauer et al. 2021 [40]	Australia	40	E	40	27/13	68 (13)	27 (24)
Total	677		C	169	432/245	mean = 60 (11)	mean = 53 (26)
Total	677		E	508	432/245	mean = 60 (11)	mean = 53 (26)

C: control group; E: experimental group; SD: standard deviation; (*): converted from months; (**): converted from a range

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AOM: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Investigation, Visualization, Project administration, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AB: Data Curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. HS: Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing—original draft. CC: Methodology, Validation. SIS and EAP: Data curation, Investigation. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

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