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ArticleSociology of health & illness2025

Help-seeking and access to care for stroke and heart attack during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

Christina Weis, Georgia Spiliopoulos, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Simon Conroy, Russell Mannion, Daniel Lasserson, Carolyn Tarrant

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Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Christina WeisSchool of Allied Health Sciences, Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8447-0039
Georgia SpiliopoulosDepartment of Population Health Sciences, George Davies Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3430-6951
Agnieszka IgnatowiczMurray Learning Centre, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Simon ConroyMRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, University College London, London, UK.
Russell MannionSchool of Social Policy, HSMC, Park House, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Daniel LassersonWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Carolyn TarrantDepartment of Population Health Sciences, George Davies Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Funding

National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR200718
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article we explore how people who experienced a stroke, transient ischaemic attack, or heart attack sought health care during the COVID-19 lockdown periods. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 patients admitted to hospital between March 2020 and May 2021, and one carer who was recruited from cardiac and stroke rehabilitation services in two large acute NHS trusts in England. Drawing on concepts of candidacy, illness and moral work, we discuss how people's sense-making about their symptoms fundamentally shaped both their decisions about seeking help and the impact of COVID-19 on help seeking. Risk perception and interactional ritual chain theory allow further exploration of constructing symbols of national identity in times of crises, managing risk and levels of acceptable risk and critique of ambiguous national messaging over accessing health-care services for people with emergency health-care needs. Our findings have wider implications for supporting access into health care for those with life-threatening conditions under highly publicised strain on the health system, including winter pressure and staff strikes, as well as policymaking and public messaging.

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COVID-19Health Services AccessibilityMyocardial InfarctionPatient Acceptance of Health CareQualitative ResearchStrokeAdultAgedAged, 80 and overEnglandFemaleHelp-Seeking BehaviorHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedcandidacyCOVID‐19Englandhealthcare accessheart attackMidlandsmoral workresilienceriskstroke

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PMCPMC11684498

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