“You think you’re going to get better”: a creative-relational inquiry into long Covid and physical activity

Carless, David; Ormerod, Jane; Douglas, Kitrina; Kan, Denise; Meach, Rachel; Hayes, Lawrence D.; Hilliard, Natalie; Ingram, Joanne; Mair, Jacqueline L.; Mclaughlin, Marie; Sanal-Hayes, Nilihan E. M.; Sculthorpe, Nicholas F.

“You think you’re going to get better”: a creative-relational inquiry into long Covid and physical activity

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Carless, David, Ormerod, Jane, Douglas, Kitrina, Kan, Denise, Meach, Rachel, Hayes, Lawrence D., Hilliard, Natalie, Ingram, Joanne, Mair, Jacqueline L., Mclaughlin, Marie, Sanal-Hayes, Nilihan E. M. and Sculthorpe, Nicholas F. (2024) “You think you’re going to get better”: a creative-relational inquiry into long Covid and physical activity. Qualitative Inquiry, 31 (3-4). pp. 344-351. ISSN 1077-8004

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This creative-relational inquiry explores the lived experience of people suffering from Long Covid. Responding to calls for a publicly oriented qualitative inquiry, we collaborate across an extended project team to develop and share an accessible and engaging performance text which advocates for and supports those who live precariously as a result of contracting Long Covid. We offer our performance text as a resource to inform and guide personal, professional, public, and policy responses to Long Covid. We propose that creative-relational inquiries such as this beneficially extend understanding beyond what is possible through traditional evidence-based medicine alone.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1177/10778004241234633
Keywords:	arts-based research, evidence-based medicine, illness narratives, Long Covid, performance text, physical activity
Subjects:	Medicine and health
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2025
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13496

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