Jayne Newbury, Jessica Eagle
The complexities of diagnosis: New Zealand parents' knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of identification of their children's language and literacy difficulties
International journal of speech-language pathology
taste smell disorders common symptoms sarscov2 acute infection postcovid19 condition symptoms persist leading disruption patients lives changes coping skills need develop strategies everyday life study aimed describe perspective group patients longcovid19 condition loss taste andor smell predominant symptom qualitative descriptive study conducted participants suffered sarscov2 infection longcovid19 loss taste andor smell recruited purposive sampling applied participants recruited data redundancy reached indepth interviews used data collection thematic analysis applied twelve covid19 survivors 75 women recruited mean age participants 55 years mean duration postcovid19 symptoms 25 months three themes identified living taste smell disorders describing disorders experience daily basis life changed accompanying emotions b changes challenges resulting loss taste smell changes habits selfcare risk certain jobs daily activities c coping taste smell disorders describing daily strategies used health care received conclusion longcovid19 taste andor smell disorders limit daily life involve changes habits meal preparation ability detect potentially dangerous situations