Living with Hepatitis C Virus: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Literature

Table 2

Characteristics of included studies.

	Author	Study design	Number of participants included	Themes
				Disruption to daily life	Communication	Impact of diagnosis	Preferences for care	Stigma
General population	Blasiole et al., 2006	Semistructured interview	342			✓		✓
	Bova et al., 2008	Semistructured interviews	39	✓
	Brunings et al., 2013	Semistructured focus group interviews	44		✓		✓
	Butt et al., 2008	Interviews and daily think-aloud recordings	26					✓
	Conrad et al., 2006	Semistructured interviews	70	✓		✓		✓
	Dudley et al., 2007	In-depth interviews	8	✓
	Faye and Irurita, 2003	Semistructured interviews	24					✓
	Fry and Bates, 2012	Semistructured interviews	15	✓	✓	✓		✓
	Glacken et al., 2003	In-depth interviews	28	✓
	Glacken et al., 2001	Descriptive exploratory design	9	✓		✓
	Groessl et al., 2008	Semistructured interviews	22	✓		✓
	Grundy and Beeching, 2004	Semistructured interviews	8					✓
	Harris, 2010	Phenomenological research design	40	✓
	Harris, 2005	Not reported	20			✓	✓	✓
	Harris, 2009	Semistructured interviews	40		✓	✓
	Hepworth and Krug, 1999	Semistructured interviews	66		✓	✓
	Hill et al., 2015	Unstructured interviews	23	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
	Janke et al., 2008	Focus groups	40					✓
	Jiwani et al., 2013	Semistructured interviews	10	✓		✓	✓
	Kinder, 2009	Interviews using open-ended questions	8			✓
	Le Talec, 2013	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	31			✓
	MacNeil, 2012	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	9			✓
	McCreaddie et al., 2011	Semistructured interviews	16	✓			✓	✓
	Moore et al., 2009	Written questionnaire with open ended questions	39		✓	✓		✓
	North et al., 2014	Semistructured focus group interviews	48		✓		✓	✓
	Olsen et al., 2013	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	109			✓
	Olsen et al., 2009	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	109	✓
	Owen, 2008	In-depth, open-ended interviews	6					✓
	Paterson et al., 2006	“Think aloud” approach during a face-to-face interview	33		✓		✓
	Sgorbini et al., 2009	Semistructured, open-ended interview	5			✓	✓	✓
	Sinclair et al., 2011	Semi-structured open-ended interview	13			✓
	Stewart et al., 2012	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	13		✓		✓	✓
	Stoller et al., 2009	Semi-structured, open-ended interviews	42	✓
	Sutton and Treloar, 2007	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	36			✓		✓
	Temple-Smith et al., 2004	Open-ended interview	32		✓		✓	✓
	Treloar et al., 2010	Open-ended interview	24		✓
	Treloar and Hopwood, 2008	Open-ended interview	20		✓
	Treloar and Hopwood, 2004	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	19		✓
Injection drug users	Contreras and Jason, 2013	Semistructured interviews	4	✓		✓
	Copeland, 2004	Semistructured interviews, conducted in groups			✓
	Crockett and Gifford, 2004	Semistructured interviews	25	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
	Habib and Adorjany, 2003	Self-reported questionnaire with open- and closed-ended questions	274		✓		✓	✓
	Olsen et al., 2012	Semistructured, open-ended interviews	83			✓
	Tompkins et al., 2005	In-depth, open-ended interviews	17		✓	✓
	Wright et al., 2005	In-depth interviews	17	✓
Other	Dunne and Quayle, 2001	Semistructured focus groups	32	✓		✓