Table 1.

Study participants

ID	Sex	Age, years	TIA and/or stroke	Time since TIA/stroke, years	Impairments		Employment before stroke		Employment after stroke

					Physical (visible)	Non-physical (invisible)	Working time	Job type^a	Working time	Job type^a
P1	M	Not disclosed	TIA	30	−	+	Full time	4. Small employers and own account workers	Full time	4. Small employers and own account workers

P2	M	55	Stroke	2	+	+	Full time	4. Small employers and own account workers	Part time	Volunteer work

P3	M	51	Stroke	1	−	+	Full time	3. National government administrative occupations	Not working	Not working

P4	M	Not disclosed	TIA	7	−	+	Full time	2. Laboratory technicians	Full time	2. Laboratory technicians

P5	F	65	TIA + stroke	8	+	+	Full time	3. National government administrative occupations	Part time	3. National government administrative occupations

P6	M	50	TIA + stroke	0	+	+	Full time	5. Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers	Not working	Not working

P7	M	58	TIA	2	−	+	Full time	1.2 Chemical scientists	Full time	1.2 Chemical scientists

P8	M	60	Stroke	4	−	+	Full time	2. Managers and proprietors in other services	Not working	Not working

			Carer’s relationship with stroke survivor
C1	F		Wife of P1
C2	F		Wife of P6

	Sex		Profession		Work details
OT1	F		Occupational therapist		Specialised neurorehabilitation centre
OT2	F		Occupational therapist		Local community neurorehabilitation service
GP1	M		GP		Practice of 11 000 patients
GP2	M		GP		Practice of 8000 patients
E	M		Employer representative		>500 staff
CC1	M		Clinical commissioner		Mental health
CC2	M		Clinical commissioner		Occupational health — stroke services
CC3	M		Clinical commissioner		Heart and stroke medicine

↵a Job type classification according to the SOC2010 and NS-SEC Occupation coding tool.¹⁶ ID = identifier. P = patient. TIA = transient ischaemic attack.