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Table 7 Distinctions between pairs of concepts

From: Comparing the performance of the EQ-5D-3L and the EQ-5D-5L in young Portuguese adults

Items

Content analysisa

Linguistic extractsa

Linguistic features

Pain/Discomfort

Association to physical pain and not other type of pain [14]

I think pain is something that pains us and discomfort is that we don’t feel 100 % [3]

Choice of generic lexical items and indefinite pronouns

To measure the degree of pain is very difficult [2]

For me pain is to feel some pain, right? Discomfort is to feel bothered with something but it’s not really pain [4]

High level of certainty

Anxiety/Depression

These are totally different things [1]

When I’m depressed I’m sad, I don’t feel like doing anything

First person discourse

These are two distinct things [3]

I think there are various types of anxiety but there’s only one type of depression [2]

Choice of specific lexical items

These are two different issues [4]

I think these are two distinct things [3, 4]

High level of certainty

  1. aNumbers between square brackets indicate individual respondents