What?
The longitudinal qualitativestudy aims to understandindividuals’ experiences of and perspectives on long COVID.In-depth interviews will be undertaken with 40 geographically dispersed participants across the five cohort studies hosted at 鶹ýƵվ (spanning ages 20 to 75 years across the whole of the UK), and 40 participants from Born in Bradford. The broad age range of the cohorts will facilitate understanding of experiences and perspectives at different stages of the life course.
Why?
These interviews will allow us to answer the following research questions:
How?
Three waves of qualitative interviews will be conducted: Wave 1 = Autumn 2021, Wave 2 = Spring-Summer 2022, Wave 3 = Winter-early Spring 2022-23. The participating cohorts are : Born in Bradford (the parents of children born 2007-2011), the Millennium Cohort 鶹ýƵվ (born 2000-02), Next Steps (born 1989-90), BCS70 (1970), National Child Development 鶹ýƵվ (1958) and the National Survey of Health and Development (1946). Included in each wave will be interviews with 15-20 healthcare professionals.
Publications
“I don’t know what to do or where to go”. Experiences of accessing healthcare support from the perspectives of people living with Long Covid and healthcare professionals: A qualitative study in Bradford, UK
Sarah AkhtarBaz, ChaoFang, JDCarpentieri,LauraSheard
‘I am just a shadow of who I used to be’—Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long COVID
ChaoFang, Sarah AkhtarBaz, LauraSheard, JDCarpentieri