How to cope with Long COVID – A qualitative interview study on stressors and coping strategies of people affected by long-term consequences of COVID-19

• Melanie Elgner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Melanie.Elgner@med.ovgu.de

  Affiliations University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5425-6541

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• Marius Binneböse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Josi Großmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Tamara Frank,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, TUM University Hospital, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Paul Bruckmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, TUM University Hospital, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Claas Lahmann,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Katrin Elisabeth Giel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Christine Allwang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, TUM University Hospital, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Florian Junne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Germany

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• Hannah Wallis

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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