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Long-Term Acceptability of Hygiene, Face Covering, and Social Distancing Interventions to Prevent Exacerbations in people living with Airways Diseases

Status of Publication: In progress
Date produced: 2022
Authoring organisation/Author affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University College London;Asthma + Lung UK;National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London;Royal Brompton Hospital
Individual author(s): Hurst JR, Cumella A, Niklewicz CN, Philip K, Singh V
Type of Resource: Research
Impairment area(s): Stamina/Breathing/Fatigue
Transport mode(s): Public Transport
Journey stage: Unspecified
Region: United Kingdom (not specified)

Document summary

There has been a substantial reduction in admissions to hospital with exacerbations of airways diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic, likely because measures introduced to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 also reduced transmission of other respiratory viruses. The acceptability to patients of continuing such interventions beyond the pandemic as a measure to prevent exacerbations is not known.

Method An online survey of people living with respiratory disease was created by the Asthma UK – British Lung Foundation Partnership. People were asked what infection control measures they expected to continue themselves, and what they thought should be policy for the population more generally in the future, once the COVID-19 pandemic had subsided.

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