Brehon, Katelyn
Choi, Mirsol
Hung, Pam
Miciak, Maxi
Lim, Rachel K.
Bhutani, Mohit
Perreault, Kadija
Ronksley, Paul E.
Stickland, Micheal K.
Weatherald, Jason
Gross, Douglas P.
Lam, Grace Y.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes for Health Research
Article History
Received: 27 January 2026
Accepted: 15 June 2026
First Online: 26 June 2026
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was obtained from the University of Alberta’s Health Research Ethics Board (Pro00118367) and the University of Calgary’s Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (pSite-22-0025). Informed verbal consent was obtained from all study participants.
: Not applicable.
: GYL is the primary investigator for the grant that supported this work but did not receive payments from this grant. GYL received local institutional funding for related work on the impact of healthcare utilization during the pandemic for people with COPD from University Hospital Foundation. GYL has also received payment or honoraria from Canadian Thoracic Society and the Public Agency of Canada for work related to the management of COVID-19 and Long COVID. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19 [Application Number:474277]. Salary support for KB was provided by this grant. The funding body did not play a role in design of the study, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of the data, or in writing themanuscript.