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

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

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

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

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	344-351
Number of pages	8
Journal	Qualitative Inquiry
Volume	31
Issue number	3-4
Early online date	3 Mar 2024
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2025

Keywords

arts-based research
evidence-based medicine
illness narratives
Long Covid
performance text
physical activity

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Carless, D., Ormerod, J., Douglas, K., Kan, D., Meach, R., Hayes, L. D., Hilliard, N., Ingram, J., Mair, J. L., Mclaughlin, M., Sanal-Hayes, N. E. M., & Sculthorpe, N. F. (2025). “You think you’re going to get better”: a creative-relational inquiry into Long Covid and physical activity. Qualitative Inquiry, 31(3-4), 344-351. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778004241234633

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