Effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for people living with long covid (Listen trial): pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of Listen, a self-management support intervention, for people living with long covid who were not in hospital.

Design

Pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Twenty four sites in England and Wales.

Participants

Identified from long covid clinic waiting lists, word of mouth, and adverts/social media self-referred to the trial, 554 adults with long covid were randomised to receive either the Listen trial intervention or NHS usual care.

Interventions

The Listen intervention involved up to six one-to-one personalised sessions with trained healthcare practitioners and an accompanying handbook co-designed by people with lived experience and health professionals. Usual NHS care was var

SUBMITTER: Busse M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11881025 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature