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Mental health support, in the form of formal or remote sessions, has been shown to be helpful to health care staff, despite the organizational difficulties in an emergency. During the first emergence of COVID-19 in Italy, the Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care\n                    <jats:italic>Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo Foundation<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Pavia, Lombardy), the Italian hospital that treated \u201cpatient 1,\u201d has activated an agreement with the\n                    <jats:italic>Soleterre Foundation<\/jats:italic>\n                    , an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that manages health emergency projects, to provide psychological support. A task force of psychologists was created with the aim of designing and administering a\n                    <jats:italic>Therapeutic Mental Health Assessment for COVID-19 Care Workers<\/jats:italic>\n                    (TMHA COVID-19 CWs) to evaluate and support health care workers\u2019 mental health. The assessment battery was developed to evaluate symptoms and behaviors associated with trauma and the corresponding maladaptive behaviors (the National Stressful Events Survey for PTSD-Short Scale \u201cNSESSS\u201d and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders \u201cDSM-5\u201d Self-Rated Level 1 transversal Symptom Measure\u2014Adult). Once the TMHA COVID-19 CWs had been developed, the team of psychologists regularly visited healthcare staff in the ward to administer it. One hundred seven care workers (44 males, mean age 40 \u00b1 15) across Intensive Care Units (ICUs), the emergency room and medical ward were administered the TMHA COVID-19 CWs. PTSD symptoms were reported as severe by 13% of the population. Depressive symptoms as severe for 7% and Anxiety symptoms as severe for 14%. Severe psychotic symptoms were experienced by 2% and severe suicidal thoughts by 1% of the population. The possibility of acting upon the results of the TMHA COVID-19 CWs allowed an early intervention through individual session beyond the cut-off level (moderate and severe symptoms) for PTSD in NSESSS. In fact, 280 individual support sessions were offered. 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