6 Week Course Programme Overview: Living with Long COVID
Programme overview
Programme overview for our 6 week course - Long COVID Self-Management.
Week 1
- overview of self-management and long-term health conditions
- Fatigue and getting a good nights sleep
- Using your mind to manage symptoms
- Making an action plan
Week 2
- Making an action plan
- Feedback
- Problem-solving
- Dealing with difficult emotions
- Physical activity
- Preventing falls
Week 3
- Making an action plan
- Feedback
- Physical activity and exercise
- Making decisions
- Pain management
- Healthy eating
Week 4
- Making an action plan
- Feedback
- Physical activity and exercise
- Healthy eating
- Better breathing
- Communication skills
Week 5
- Using your mind to manage symptoms
- Making ana action plan
- Feedback
- Healthy eating
- Medication usage
- Dealing with low mood and depression
Week 6
- Using your mind to manage symptoms
- Feedback
- Making informed treatment decisions
- Working with your healthcare professionals
- Future plans
Out of course activity by session
Session 1
- Reading covered this session: Chapters 1 and 2, 5 and 6
- Practice using distractions.
Session 2
- Reading covered this session: Chapter 5
- Think about how you'd like to start an exercise program or increase the program you are doing now.
- You may want to keep a journal of your feelings
- In session 3, we'll be talking about decision making. Please think of something in your life for which you need to make a decision and have it ready for next week's activity.
Session 3
- Reading covered this session: Chapters 1,5,7 and 10
- Choose one of the methods of monitoring exertion and check your level during different activities and exercises
- In session 4 , we will look at what we eat for at least 2 days during this week
- We suggest using one day during the week and one day on the weekend because our eating habits are often different on the weekends.
- We will share what we learned. This information will be useful when we talk about healthy eating next week
Session 4
- Reading covered this session: Chapters 2,4,5,10 and 11
- Keep the food diary again for one weekday and one weekend day. Look at your portions and the number of calories, and grams of fat and salt you are eating, especially saturated fats.
Session 5
- Reading covered this session: Pages Chapters 5,6,10 and 13
- Make a personal medication list, with names of all your medications, the healthcare professional who prescribed it, dosage, date started, reason for taking it and any drug allergies.
- we invite you to call, email or write a letter to your healthcare professional about what you have accomplished during this programme. If you are not pleased with your progress over the past six weeks, please write a letter or email to the developers of this program explaining your reasons. The address is: ( provide programme coordinators details)
- You do not have to send or show these letters, please bring them with you next week to use during the sharing activity. If you send the letter to your healthcare professionals, though, it would help spread the word out there. We would like your permission to share your letters with representatives of the organization to gain support for funding these programmes. Please let us know if you give us permission to share your letter.
Session 6
- Reading Covered this session : Chapter 6,11 and 13
Contact our self-care team to find out more information about our health and wellbeing courses, including how to book your place.