Exploring Sources of Emotional Distress among People Living with Scleroderma: A Focus Group Study

• Stephanie T. Gumuchian,

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Sandra Peláez,

  Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Vanessa C. Delisle,

  Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Marie-Eve Carrier,

  Affiliation Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Lisa R. Jewett,

  Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Ghassan El-Baalbaki,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Catherine Fortune,

  Affiliation Scleroderma Society of Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Marie Hudson,

  Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Ann Impens,

  Affiliation Institute for Health Innovation, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States of America

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• Annett Körner,

  Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Jennifer Persmann,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Linda Kwakkenbos,

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Behavioural Science Institute, Clinical Psychology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Susan J. Bartlett ,

  * E-mail: brett.thombs@mcgill.ca (BDT); susan.bartlett@mcgill.ca (SJB)

  ¶‡ These authors are Senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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• Brett D. Thombs

  * E-mail: brett.thombs@mcgill.ca (BDT); susan.bartlett@mcgill.ca (SJB)

  ¶‡ These authors are Senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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