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Conceptualising Long COVID as an episodic health condition
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### Summary box Globally growing numbers of individuals are living with persistent signs and symptoms following infection consistent with COVID-19, referred to as Long COVID or Post-COVID Conditions. An estimated 6.2% of the U K population self-identified experiencing Long COVID, which negatively affected their general well-being and ability to exercise and work.1 Long COVID symptoms also adversely affected day-to-day activities among 64.7% of those self-reporting Long COVID, with 19.3% reporting significant limitations to daily activities.2 The long-term trajectory of Long COVID remains unknown. Therefore, conceptualising disability in Long COVID is essential for better understanding the lived experiences and health-related challenges of people living with and affected by Long COVID, to inform effective rehabilitation approaches and interventions to enhance clinical practice, policy and research. Our aim is to conceptualise Long COVID as an episodic health condition resulting in disability that may be characterised as multidimensional, episodic and unpredictable in nature and to highlight future …
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“Apart from this, patients suffering long COVID conditions may be at increased risk of ED chronification as they may have to cope not only with physical symptoms but also with loneliness and the stigma related to scepticism about their symptoms, which may in turn compromise their social and family life, work functionality and quality of life (Brown and O’Brien, 2021; Office of National Statistics,”
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“This limits the generalizability of findings, as CID-psychological comorbidity is common (Daré et al., 2019) and multimorbidity of CIDs is the norm (Tinetti, Fried, & Boyd, 2012) and becoming more relevant in the COVID-19 context (Brown & O’Brien, 2021; Fernández-Nino, Guerra-Gómez, & Idrovo, 2021).”
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“…they may have to cope not only with physical symptoms but also with loneliness and the stigma related to scepticism about their symptoms, which may in turn compromise their social and family life, work functionality and quality of life (Brown and O’Brien, 2021; Office of National Statistics, 2021).”
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- Authors
- Brown, D. A., & O’Brien, K. K.
- Affiliations
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- O’Brien, Kelly K
- Venue
- BMJ Global Health
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2021-09
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- e007004
- ISSN
- 2059-7908 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8460526
- OpenAlex
- W3201236807
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 10.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BMJ Global Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Canada Research Chairs Program (Not Applicable)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Medical Practices and Rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Keywords
- long COVID, disability, conceptualization, rehabilitation, lived experience, activity limitation
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, Humans
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