The coping styles to stress of Italian emergency health-care professionals after the first peak of COVID 19 pandemic outbreak

In Italy, thousands of Emergency healthcare professionals were in- volved during the first COVID 19 pandemic outbreak, fighting at the frontline to address the challenges posed to the healthcare systems by almost 250.000 patients infected by the end of June 2020. Poor coping strategies to stress may lead to impaired job performance and risk of in- fection, as well as psychological distress and burnout, also in relation to coping styles [1]. A cross-sectional survey of different coping styles to workload dis- tress was carried out between June 15 and June 30, 2020, immediately after the first COVID-19 Italian outbreak.