Listen Project: putting those with Long Covid at the centre of rehabilitation

In the latest episode of Covid Matters we find out about the LISTEN Project, which recently received more than £1 million in funding from the National Institute for Health Research and is co-led by Professor Fiona Jones – who spoke to us about the work getting underway.

She is the Professor of Rehabilitation Research at St George's University of London and Kingston University, and the founder and CEO of 'Bridges self-management’.

In recognition that each person with Long Covid can experience markedly different symptoms, the LISTEN project will work in partnership with patients to design and evaluate a package of self-management support that can be tailored to individual needs.

The researchers will first work with people living with or recovered from Long Covid, plus a social enterprise with expertise in reaching seldom heard populations, to design the package and associated patient and training resources.

The team will then test the self-management package alongside up to six one-to-one virtual coaching sessions from trained rehabilitation practitioners, to test whether the treatment improves how people with Long Covid feel and how they cope with everyday activities. The researchers will also evaluate how the package could be implemented more widely, with the aim that self-management for people with Long Covid can be delivered at scale.

I spoke to Fiona in detail about this work – and I hope you find our conversation as fascinating as I did. You can find a blog from Fiona on our website: https://covidaidcharity.org/

And the LISTEN Project Twitter page is here: https://twitter.com/TheLISTENproj 

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