Table 1.
Participant characteristics
| Participants recruited from previous long COVID study | Participants recruited from neuro COVID support groups | Total brain fog focus group participants | Responders to email follow-up post-focus groups | |
| 23 | 27 | 50 | 20 | |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 15 | 26 | 42 | 17 |
| Male | 8 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| Age | ||||
| Median | 48 | 36 | 43 | 43 |
| Range | 31–74 | 29–68 | 29–74 | 31–74 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White British | 16 | 14 | 30 | 11 |
| White other | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Black | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Asian | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Non-response | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Occupation | ||||
| Healthcare professional | 8 | 8 | 16 | 5 |
| Non-healthcare professional | 13 | 11 | 24 | 9 |
| Non-response | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| Hospitalised at any point due to COVID-19 | ||||
| Yes | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| No | 9 | 8 | 17 | 4 |
| Non-response | 14 | 15 | 29 | 16 |