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Introduction: Mental health has been a concept frequently subjected to discussion and in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic it acquired broad relevance when its impact on the mental health of health workers was documented, which increases the need to study the triggers. And the preventive and mitigating strategies of these alterations, focusing specifically on the effectiveness of support groups for health workers.Methods: Quick review of the literature focused on support groups and their effectiveness in the context of the mental health of health personnel. Searches were made in PubMed, Embase, and Google Scholar, for the gray literature of articles published between 2013 and 2023. Relevant information was extracted about the realization of support groups, their effectiveness, facilities, and barriers.Results: 280 articles were identified, 150 from the indexed databases and 130 from gray literature, of which 16 were included in the final analysis. The results indicated differences between how the workers' mental health in the pre-pandemic health area was managed, during the pandemic and how this left different tools such as virtuality that facilitate access and increase assistance to them, where support groups strategies were implemented to support health personnel.Conclusion: The effectiveness of support groups and other interventions, both face-to-face and remote, have brought extensive benefits in the prevention and treatment of stressful triggers and for the maintenance of the mental health of health personnel, for which it is recommended the continuation of its implementation in this population and extrapolation to other contexts, people, and settings |
