Living with Long Covid
A Longitudinal Interview Study of Individuals’ Communicative Resilience Through the “Long Haul”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21616179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C M Thompson (0000-0002-5946-7153, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Sara Babu (0000-0002-3004-3066, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Emily Gerlikovski (0000-0002-7312-1810, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Maeve McGuire (0000-0002-7759-034X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Shana Mako (0009-0002-8423-8181, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Shana Makos (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Annalisa Ranallo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Isabella Robieson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 2135-2151 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-0236 • E-ISSN: 1532-7027 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10410236.2023.2257941 |
| PMID | 37733066 |
| OpenAlex | W4386910889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 36 |
It is estimated that there are 65 million people globally - 19 million U.S. adults alone - who have long COVID, or persistent symptoms and conditions that continue or develop after an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. Amidst their suffering and the ambiguity surrounding their health, people with long COVID engage processes of reintegrating from disruptions brought upon by their COVID-19 infection and its fallout, as well as the pandemic writ large. This process is communicative resilience (Buzzanell, 2010, 2017, 2019), and the purpose of this study is to document the experiences of people with long COVID as they sensemake, adapt, and transform their lives through communication. We employed longitudinal interviewing during the middle stages of the pandemic (Summer 2021 to Summer 2022), talking to 19 people with long COVID over the course of one year (five interviews each; 89 total interviews). Grounded in the six processes of communicative resilience, findings center the temporal and dialectic nature of resilience, with throughlines of grief, patience, and hope set against a tumultuous sociopolitical backdrop. Findings of this study have implications for how resilience is studied across time; how people learn to live with chronic illnesses; and how to support people living with long COVID and those who provide them care
Grief · Longitudinal study · Pandemic · Psychiatry · Psychological resilience · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 · Medicine · Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Long Covid
Thematic Analysis
“I Have to Social Norm This”
Caring for Patients without Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience
Individual and community practices for constructing communicative resilience
Negotiation of collective and individual candidacy for long Covid healthcare in the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic
Resilience
Communication and Uncertainty Management
Communicating Social Support in Computer-mediated Contexts
On the Study of Process in Communication Research
Transferable Resilience Practices
What’s the Big “D”? Contemporary Approaches to Discourse in Interpersonal and Family Communication Scholarship
Understanding the triggers and communicative processes that constitute resilience in the context of migration to the United States
Interpretive themes in relational communication
How and why patients made Long Covid
The contested meaning of "long Covid" - Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence
Longitudinal Qualitative Research
The Body's Insistence on Meaning
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |