Table 4.
Themes explored in each qualitative study.
References | Depression | Anxiety | Stress | Emotional distress | Physical functioning | Sexuality | Coping | Interactions with medical professionals | Health behavior change | Money | Social support | Parenthood | Work | Identity |
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Andersson et al. (2013) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
Joubert et al. (2013) | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
Koutrolou-Sotiropoulou et al. (2016) | x | x | x | |||||||||||
Lacharity (1999) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
McAnirn et al. (2015) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
Merritt et al. (2017) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
Waldron et al. (2017) | x | x | x | x | x | x |
x, theme explored in this study.