{"id":5279,"date":"2024-04-05T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:09:57","slug":"researchers-say-more-support-education-needed-to-help-b-c-long-covid-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-say-more-support-education-needed-to-help-b-c-long-covid-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say more support, education needed to help B.C. long-COVID patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better long-COVID awareness, education and support are needed for patients, according to Simon Fraser University researchers who conducted a study on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>More education for health-care workers, including doctors and nurses, is one of the recommendations made in a report done by the SFU-based Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society.<\/p>\n<p>The report includes findings from two focus groups of unpaid caregivers, professional care providers, long-COVID researchers and people living with long COVID, identified as \u201clonghaulers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an invisible and new condition,\u201d said Kayli Jamieson, a longhauler who co-led the focus groups as part of a larger study with Kaylee Byers, an assistant professor in SFU\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences. \u201cMany people don\u2019t believe that long COVID is real or exists. Unfortunately, that permeates through the healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better long-COVID awareness, education and support are needed for patients, according to Simon Fraser University researchers who conducted a study on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>More education for health-care workers, including doctors and nurses, is one of the recommendations made in a report done by the SFU-based Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society.<\/p>\n<p>The report includes findings from two focus groups of unpaid caregivers, professional care providers, long-COVID researchers and people living with long COVID, identified as \u201clonghaulers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an invisible and new condition,\u201d said Kayli Jamieson, a longhauler who co-led the focus groups as part of a larger study with Kaylee Byers, an assistant professor in SFU\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences. \u201cMany people don\u2019t believe that long COVID is real or exists. Unfortunately, that permeates through the healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-say-more-support-education-needed-to-help-b-c-long-covid-patients\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers say more support, education needed to help B.C. long-COVID patients<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[549,96,18,391,11,8,14,1034,1033,121],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-burnaby","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-sfu","tag-simon-fraser-university","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}