All but one study (Dean 2010) recruited participants in the chronic phase after stroke,with seven studies (Batchelor 2012;Dean 2012; Green 2002; Haran 2010; Holmgren 2010; Lau 2012; Marigold 2005) recruiting people living in the community and two studies (Sato 2005a; Sato 2011) being carried out in an institutional or hospital setting. Dean 2010 recruited participants from an acute and subacute setting.