Background: One in ten people infected with COVID-19 presents persistent COVID, whichconsists of the presence of symptoms three months after the acute manifestations ofCOVID-19 and their persistence for at least two months, without being explained by analternative diagnosis. The characteristics and clinical approach to persistent COVIDsyndrome are fairly well known, but not what the experience of people with persistentCOVID is in relation to their daily life, their work life, and their experience with thehealthcare received. Objective: to understand the experience of patients with persistentCOVID in relation to the disease, the health care received and re-entry into the world ofworkMethods: Qualitative, descriptive, phenomenological study, based on individualinterviews. The study protocol will be registered in Clinicaltrials.gov. People withpersistent COVID treated at the Parc Taulí Hospital will be included. Sampling will be byconvenience, purposive and snowball and the sample size will be determined by datasaturation. Semi-structured individual or group interviews will be conducted and the datawill be analyzed following a reflective thematic analysis (Brawn and Clarke). Thepreliminary report will be triangulated with some participants and with the resultsobtained from a scoping review carried out by the research team.