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Background

The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to substantial changes in population behaviour and health‐related outcomes. Approximately 10% of people who test positive for COVID‐19 experience long‐term health effects lasting for more than 12 weeks post‐infection, including persistent physical, neuropsychological, and mental health‐related symptoms (termed Long COVID; Office for National Statistics, 2020). Although outcomes are improving due to better understanding of COVID‐19 and clinical advancements, a significant proportion of people with severe disease require hospitalization and experience substantially impaired quality of life (Dennis, McGovern, Vollmer, & Mateen, 2021). There are also indirect effects on health and well‐being resulting from unemployment, trauma and stress related to the disease, bereavement, and the implementation of national and local restriction measures to control infection …