Receptive music therapy to reduce stress and improve wellbeing in Italian clinical staff involved in COVID-19 pandemic: A preliminary study.

•In an emergency situation it is possible to put in place a remote MT support intervention.•Clinical Staff define this structured intervention as empathic, supportive and professional.•MTps were able to create a remote therapeutic relationship with Clinical staff (CS).•Self-administration of music by CS would not have been enough to achieve the objective of the present study.•Few studies have been conducted so far with a focus on MT support to CS assisting COVID patients.