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cord-330966-98sygj8n	Barello, Serena	Empathic communication as a “Risky Strength” for Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Case of Frontline Italian Healthcare Workers	2020-06-24		.txt	text/plain	1033	64	49	title: Empathic communication as a "Risky Strength" for Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Case of Frontline Italian Healthcare Workers In the face of this unpredictable disease and its related safety risks, healthcare providers feared infection and worried about their loved ones, but they still joined the institutional call to give their professional contribution to contain the epidemic and showed a limitless spirit of empathy. They were invited to fill an online questionnaire includingin addition to information on demographic and professionals aspects -the following items: self-report items designed to assess healthcare professionals' empathic attitude in terms of their perspective taking ability (e.g. item: A health care professional who is able to view things from another person's perspective can provide patients' with better care) and a list of psychosomatic symptoms adapted from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire [7] Table 1 describes more in details the sample characteristics. Caring for Health Professionals in the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency : Toward an " Epidemic of Empathy " in Healthcare	./cache/cord-330966-98sygj8n.txt	./txt/cord-330966-98sygj8n.txt