Analysis of symptoms and quality of life of people with prolonged diagnosis of COVID-19, and the efficacy of an intervention in primary care using ICT

This is a ranzomized clinical study called: “Analysis of symptoms and quality of life of people with prolonged diagnosis of COVID-19, and the efficacy of an intervention in primary care using ICT”, approved in mid-2020, with reference number ISRCTN91104012. The main objetive is to analyse the overall effectiveness and cost-efficiency of a mobile application (APP) as a community health asset (HA) with recommendations and recovery exercises created bearing in mind the main symptoms presented by Long COVID patients in order to improve their quality of life, as well as other secondary variables, such as the number and severity of ongoing symptoms, physical and cognitive functions, affective state, and sleep quality. The first step was to design and develop the technologic community resource, the APP, following the steps involved in the process of recommending health assets (RHA). After this, a protocol of a randomised clinical trial for analysing its effectiveness and cost-efficiency as a HA was developed. The participants will be assigned to: (1st) usual treatment by the primary care practitioner (TAU), as a control group; and (2nd) TAU + use of the APP as a HA and adjuvant treatment in their recovery + three motivational interviews (MI), as an interventional group. An evaluation will be carried out at baseline with further assessments three and six months following the end of the intervention.