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. 2020 Aug;12(S1):S171-S173.
doi: 10.1037/tra0000827. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

Tending and mending: Affiliative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare professionals in Italy

Edita Fino  1 , Viola Fino  2 , Michela Mazzetti  1 , Paolo Maria Russo  1
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Tending and mending: Affiliative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare professionals in Italy

Edita Fino et al. Psychol Trauma. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

The physical and social isolation measures associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, although certainly necessary to contain the spread of the virus, represent a particularly distressing aspect that might accentuate the fears and pain associated with the disease, especially for patients, their family members, and health-care professionals. Affiliative responses to the crises are emerging as ad hoc or formally endorsed practices within COVID-19 facilities in Italy, aimed at establishing links of communication between patients and family members by using new communication technologies. Tending to the emotional needs of patients and mending the affiliative connections interrupted by the disease are good examples of interdisciplinary cohesion and affiliative responses to the COVID-19 emergency. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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