Long COVID Shared Medical Appointments: Lifestyle and Mind-Body Medicine with Peer Support

Long COVID is a new rising health concern with no clear treatment guidelines. Patients have multiple distressing symptoms which are difficult to address in time-restricted clinic visits. Early evidence indicates a role of cytokines and chronic inflammatory processes in developing long COVID. Healthy lifestyle behaviors and modifying stress responses reduce chronic systemic inflammation. We created a novel shared medical appointment (SMA) program to provide healthy lifestyle education, mindfulness training, and group peer support for patients with long COVID symptoms.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171444/1/Patil_Long_COVID_SMA_RevisedSubmitPP.pdfDescription of Patil_Long_COVID_SMA_RevisedSubmitPP.pdf : Main ArticleSEL