Garland Ed
Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.
J Med Humanit. 2025 Jun;46(2):243-248. doi: 10.1007/s10912-024-09891-9. Epub 2024 Sep 9.
In a widely cited 2017 study, Robinson et al. (2017) found that 'emotionally expressive' writing makes physical wounds heal faster when compared to writing that did not engage the emotions. The Writing Long COVID project at Aberystwyth University engaged similar territory in a recent pilot study. Participants' writing activities explored how literary production can affect a person's experience of this new chronic condition, as well as contribute to our understanding of its symptoms. In this short essay, I show how we designed a course of short-duration online workshops that increased accessibility for people with Long COVID-related fatigue. I also argue that future Long COVID creative activities should let their timing, venue, content, and structure be influenced by the preferences of the Long COVID patient. The preliminary study suggests that the traditional parameters of the writing workshop, including its duration, could deter participation in potentially beneficial creative activities.
在一项被广泛引用的2017年研究中，罗宾逊等人（2017年）发现，与不涉及情感的写作相比，“情感表达性”写作能使身体伤口愈合得更快。阿伯里斯特威斯大学的“长期新冠写作”项目在最近的一项试点研究中涉足了类似领域。参与者的写作活动探讨了文学创作如何影响一个人对这种新慢性病的体验，以及如何有助于我们对其症状的理解。在这篇短文中，我展示了我们如何设计了一个短期在线工作坊课程，以增加患有与长期新冠相关疲劳的人的可及性。我还认为，未来与长期新冠相关的创意活动应该让其时间、地点、内容和结构受到长期新冠患者偏好的影响。初步研究表明，写作工作坊的传统参数，包括其时长，可能会阻碍人们参与潜在有益的创意活动。
