ly phase of the COVID-19 outbreak, after the lockdown in Italy following the governmental decree of 9 March 2020, and the WHO characterization of COVID-19 as a pandemic (11 March 2020). During this period, the total COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths were 147.577 and 18.849, respectively (Italian Civil Department). The snowball sampling method was employed to recruit participants [22]. In an attempt to ensure an adequately representative sample of