Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a mental disorder with high prevalence, morbidity and recurrence rate. The treatment goal of acute stage is to achieve remission, which means asymptomatic. However, clinical treatments and studies found impairment of psychosocial functioning still exists even after remission, which means incomplete recovery. As is known, the normalization of psychosocial functioning is essential to the recovery and the recurrence prevention of MDD. In order to provide reference and guidance for the clinical treatments and studies, we reviewed the related studies and found many kinds of factors influencing the restoration of psychosocial functioning, including demographic factors, diseases related factors, psychological factors, social factors and therapeutic approaches. However, few interior studies focused on the recovery of MDD, and the results of foreign studies were inconsistent, while the understanding of how those factors influence the recovery of MDD is not clear enough. In order to make the characteristics of psychosocial functioning recovery and mechanisms of the influencing factors clear, more in-depth studies should be done in the future.

Major depressive disorder; Psychosocial functioning; Influencing factors