TABLE 1.

Literature inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
1. Published primary research report	1. Poor methodological quality (≥5 items are ranked as ‘Unclear’ or ‘No’ using JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Qualitative Research)
2. Participants who were  the patients diagnosed with COVID‐19, both in settings of hospitalisation or discharge	2. Focused on experience regarding an intervention or being a part of the evaluation of the intervention
3. Participants who include doctors, nurses, family members, the finding of patients diagnosed with COVID‐19 can be extracted	3. Papers published on conference, book, newspaper or other media
4. Focused on patients' s experience, perspectives after being infected with COVID‐19	4. Paper only with title and abstract
5. Used an appropriate qualitative method (e.g. phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews, observations)
6. Used a mixed method, the qualitative part of which can be extracted
7. Papers published on journal
8. English or Chinese as its initial language