Table 2.

Quotes from focus groups’ participants for each domain of health-related quality of life impacted by gambling disorder

Domain	Focus group	Sex	Age (years)	Quote
Loneliness	V-1	Woman	46	I was no longer myself. I usually love talking to people, being close to them. I cut off myself from the rest of the world
	V-3	Man	27	Gambling makes me live in my own world. It’s as if you were dragged and after a while people go away
Financial pressure	V-4	Woman	60	I went gambling praying to win because I had to pay back the credit I had got for gambling
Relationships deterioration	V-2	Man	55	Due to gambling, my wife is asking for a divorce
	N-1	Woman	42	One of my children stopped talking to me for an entire month. He wouldn’t talk to me anymore
Feeling of incomprehension	N-1	Man	37	If I explain to someone I know or to a stranger what it is to have an alcohol use disorder or a tobacco use disorder, I guess everybody will get it, but as regards gambling disorder, they won’t
	V-1	Woman	68	I tried and failed to understand
Preoccupation with gambling	V-2	Woman	65	I try my best to do something else, but I can’t concentrate, it’s like being attracted by a magnet!
	V-2	Woman	65	Gambling made me forget to catch my children after school
	N-1	Man	65	Gambling took up my whole time and life. I had three children but my family was not my priority! Gambling was my priority!
Negative emotions	V-4	Man	34	I’m suffering a lot. I have to work hard on myself
	N-1	Man	37	[Gambling] can lead to a nervous breakdown and dark thoughts
Avoidance of helping relationship	V-2	Woman	65	I waited too long to come and have a treatment. Last year, even if my children had drawn me with chains to the hospital, I wouldn’t have come

Note. V: Villejuif; N: Nantes.