Constitution of Long COVID illness, patienthood and recovery: a critical synthesis of qualitative studies DOI Creative Commons
Mia Harrison, Tim Rhodes, Kari Lancaster

et al.

BMJ Open, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. e083340 - e083340

Published: March 1, 2024

Objectives To investigate the lived experiences of Long COVID. Design Critical interpretive synthesis qualitative research. Data sources PubMed and Web Science databases were searched on 14 September 2023. Eligibility criteria Original peer-reviewed studies describing COVID eligible for inclusion. extraction We used established methods to search, screen manually code included studies. interpretation analyse data develop synthetic constructs. Results 68 articles identified in first phase sampling, with 16 879 participants final synthesis. The analysis these was organised into three thematic constructions COVID: (1) illness, (2) patient (3) recovery. diversely characterised across study approaches, designs findings but underpinned by shared diagnostic logics, which shaped identification measurement symptoms. boundaries between different constitutions accounts illness experience often imprecise. Slippages definitions had implications relation diagnosis, help-seeking care, expectations Conclusions is a site multiple diverse interpretation. Accounts emphasise patienthood recovery as situated emergent. ongoing context-based negotiation defining feature condition. Approaches researching, diagnosing developing health interventions must be adaptive varieties experience.

Language: Английский

Constitution of Long COVID illness, patienthood and recovery: a critical synthesis of qualitative studies DOI Creative Commons
Mia Harrison, Tim Rhodes, Kari Lancaster

et al.

BMJ Open, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. e083340 - e083340

Published: March 1, 2024

Objectives To investigate the lived experiences of Long COVID. Design Critical interpretive synthesis qualitative research. Data sources PubMed and Web Science databases were searched on 14 September 2023. Eligibility criteria Original peer-reviewed studies describing COVID eligible for inclusion. extraction We used established methods to search, screen manually code included studies. interpretation analyse data develop synthetic constructs. Results 68 articles identified in first phase sampling, with 16 879 participants final synthesis. The analysis these was organised into three thematic constructions COVID: (1) illness, (2) patient (3) recovery. diversely characterised across study approaches, designs findings but underpinned by shared diagnostic logics, which shaped identification measurement symptoms. boundaries between different constitutions accounts illness experience often imprecise. Slippages definitions had implications relation diagnosis, help-seeking care, expectations Conclusions is a site multiple diverse interpretation. Accounts emphasise patienthood recovery as situated emergent. ongoing context-based negotiation defining feature condition. Approaches researching, diagnosing developing health interventions must be adaptive varieties experience.

Language: Английский

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