Using the Medical Research Council framework and public involvement in the development of a communication partner training intervention for people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA): Better Conversations with PPA

Table 5 Demographic information for focus group participants

	Person with PPA (PwPPA) and communication partner (CP)	PPA variant	Time since symptom onset	Time since diagnosis
Focus Group 1:	PwPPA (m) + CP (f)	lvPPA	4 years,	2 years
	PwPPA (f) + CP (m)	Mixed	3 years	2 years
	CP (f)	(Mixed)	(9 years)	(4 years)
	PwPPA (f) + CP (m)	nfvPPA	5 years	4 years
Focus Group 2:	PwPPA (m)	lvPPA	4 years,	1 year
	PwPPA (f) + CP (m)	svPPA	5 years	4 years
	CP (m)	(Mixed)	(8 years)	(5 years)

PwPPA Person with primary progressive aphasia, CP Communication partner, lvPPA Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, svPPA Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, nfvPPA Non-fluent agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia

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