Analysing Psychosocial Difficulties in Depression: A Content Comparison between Systematic Literature Review and Patient Perspective

Table 5

Related variables of psychosocial difficulties in literature and patient reports.

Literature review; (type of determinant and number of studies)	Focus group; (number of times PSD was a topic)	Individual interviews; (number of people mentioned with PSD)
Patient treatment (DC*) (26); Health condition: symptoms (DC) (16); Health condition: severity (DC) (8); Temperament and personality (DC) (6); Comorbidity (DC) (5); Perception and experience of social support (DC) (5); Patient treatment * treatment duration (DC) (4); Emotional functions (DC) (3); Overall score: ADL (DC) (3); Health condition: duration of episode (DC) (3); Stressful life events (DC) (3); Stigma (DO) (3); Self-perception (DO) (3^**)	Emotional functions (RVO) (18); Stressful life events (RVO) (7); Employment (RVO) (7); Cognitive functions (RVO) (7); Perception and experience of social support (RVO) (6); Energy and drive (RVO) (5); Temperament and personality (RVO) (4); Self-perception (RVO) (4); Comorbidity (RVO) (4); Patient treatment (RVC) (4); Self-perception (RVO) (4); Patient treatment (RVO) (3)	Relationship with others (RVC) (29); Patient treatment (RVC) (23); Emotional functions (RVC) (19); Stressful life events (RVC) (7); Health condition: symptoms (RVC) (7); Attitudes (RVC) (7); Comorbidity (RVC) (6); Energy and drive (RVC) (6); Self-perception (RVC) (5); Coping strategies (RVC) (4); Participation in social activities; (RVC) (4); Ageing (RVC) (3); Cognitive functions (RVC) (3); Employment (RVC) (3)

∗DC, determinant of change; DO, determinant of onset; RVC, related variable of change; RVO, related variable of onset.
**Only PSDs addressed more than three times in the literature or mentioned more than three times by the participants in the focus group and the individual interviews are shown here.