Defining effective strategies to prevent post-traumatic stress in healthcare emergency workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
² Department of Mental Health and Addiction, ASST Lodi, Lodi, Italy.
³ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Mental Health and Addiction, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan.

Claudia Carmassi et al. CNS Spectr. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 14:1-2.

doi: 10.1017/S1092852920001637. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
² Department of Mental Health and Addiction, ASST Lodi, Lodi, Italy.
³ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Mental Health and Addiction, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan.

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Mental health of frontline help-seeking healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak in the first affected hospital in Lombardy, Italy.
Carmassi C, Cerveri G, Bertelloni CA, Marasco M, Dell'Oste V, Massimetti E, Gesi C, Dell'Osso L. Carmassi C, et al. Psychiatry Res. 2021 Apr;298:113763. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113763. Epub 2021 Jan 26. Psychiatry Res. 2021. PMID: 33545425 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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