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Table 2 The categories and sub-categories identified in the analysis

From: The capacity to work puzzle: a qualitative study of physicians’ assessments for patients with common mental disorders

 

Category

1

2

3

4

5

 

Identifying, understanding, creating and fitting the pieces together in the work capacity jigsaw puzzle

The significance of the disorder while assessing work capacity and sickness absence

Identifying work-place-related pieces of information

Identifying capacity in everyday life; contextual pieces of information

Assessing the need for sickness absence

Sub-categories

a. Using previously acquired personal experiences

 

a. Identifying work setting, work tasks and work demands

 

a. Issuing sickness absence in cases of decreased work capacity

b. Sharpening the prime source of information: the patient

b. Identifying potential risk situations at work

b. Using sickness absence as a tool

c. Understanding the patient at work