Living With Long COVID: LONGCOVID-EXPERIENCE

Recruiting

• Conditions: Experience, Life; Long COVID

• Registration Number: NCT06118112
• Lead Sponsor: Corporacion Parc Tauli

Brief Summary

Background: One in ten people infected with COVID-19 presents persistent COVID, which consists of the presence of symptoms three months after the acute manifestations of COVID-19 and their persistence for at least two months, without being explained by an alternative diagnosis. The characteristics and clinical approach to persistent COVID syndrome are fairly well known, but not what the experience of people with persistent COVID is in relation to their daily life, their work life, and their experience with the healthcare received. Objective: to understand the experience of patients with persistent COVID in relation to the disease, the health care received and re-entry into the world of work

Methods: Qualitative, descriptive, phenomenological study, based on individual interviews. The study protocol will be registered in Clinicaltrials.gov. People with persistent COVID treated at the Parc Taulí Hospital will be included. Sampling will be by convenience, purposive and snowball and the sample size will be determined by data saturation. Semi-structured individual or group interviews will be conducted and the data will be analyzed following a reflective thematic analysis (Brawn and Clarke). The preliminary report will be triangulated with some participants and with the results obtained from a scoping review carried out by the research team.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-09-15
• Study Start: 2023-09-18
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-11-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-03
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-07
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-07
• Primary Completion: 2024-09-30
• Study Completion: 2024-12-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

• women and men diagnosed with persistent COVID between March '20 to the present according to WHO criteria (persistent symptoms three months after the acute manifestations of COVID-19 and lasting at least two months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis).
• treated at the Parc Taulí Hospital
• from 18 to 65 years

Exclusion Criteria

-people who do not understand or can communicate in Catalan or Spanish.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Experience with healthcare received	Up to three years	How is the experience of patients with the healthcare received for their condition. Assessed through semi-structured interviews.
Experience of the disease	Up to three years	How is living with LongCOVID. Assessed through semi-structured interviews.
Experience with return to work	Up to three years	What were the barriers and facilitators for returning to work after the disease. Assessed through semi-structures interviews.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí; 🇪🇸 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain