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Review
. 2024 Dec 16;77(6):e20240086.
doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0086. eCollection 2024.

Recommendations for guidelines for promoting mental health in the workplace: an umbrella review

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Evelin Daiane Gabriel Pinhatti  1 , Amanda Salles Margatho do Nascimento  2 , Regina Celia Bueno Rezende Machado  1 , Rosangela Aparecida Pimenta  1 , André Estevam Jaques  3 , Maria do Carmo Fernandez Lourenço Haddad  1
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Recommendations for guidelines for promoting mental health in the workplace: an umbrella review

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Evelin Daiane Gabriel Pinhatti et al. Rev Bras Enferm. .

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Abstract
in English, Spanish

Objectives: to summarize the recommendations of guidelines for promoting mental health in the workplace.

Methods: an umbrella review, according to Joanna Briggs Institute and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses methodological assumptions. Data collection was carried out in January 2021 and updated in July 2023 in the American Psychological Association, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, National Library of Medicine, and Scopus databases. Systematic reviews that assessed guidelines with recommendations for mental health care for workers were included. PROSPERO registration CRD42023461845.

Results: four systematic reviews published between 2015 and 2018 were identified. The abstracts highlighted actions that facilitate and inhibit the recommendations as well as three categories of intervention: primary prevention - worker protection; secondary prevention - promoting workers' mental health; and tertiary prevention - supporting, monitoring and rehabilitating workers upon returning to work.

Conclusions: the interventions are based on prevention, promotion and early recognition, support and rehabilitation of mental health problems.

Objetivos:: resumir las recomendaciones de las guías para promover la salud mental en el lugar de trabajo.

Métodos:: revisión general, según los supuestos metodológicos del Joanna Briggs Institute y Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses. La recolección de datos se realizó en enero de 2021 y se actualizó en julio de 2023, en las bases de datos American Psychological Association, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, National Library of Medicine y Scopus. Se incluyeron revisiones sistemáticas que evaluaron guías con recomendaciones para el cuidado de la salud mental de los trabajadores. Matrícula PRÓSPERO CRD42023461845.

Resultados:: se identificaron cuatro revisiones sistemáticas publicadas entre 2015 y 2018. Los resúmenes destacaron acciones facilitadoras e inhibidoras de las recomendaciones, así como las tres categorías de intervención: prevención primaria - protección del trabajador; prevención secundaria - promover la salud mental de los trabajadores; y prevención terciaria: apoyo, seguimiento y rehabilitación del trabajador al regresar al trabajo.

Conclusiones:: las intervenciones se basan en la prevención, promoción y reconocimiento temprano, apoyo y rehabilitación de los problemas de salud mental.

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Figure 1. Stages for identifying and selecting systematic reviews on guideline recommendations for promoting mental health in the workplace, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, 2023
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Figure 2. Summary of prevention levels of the main recommendations identified in systematic reviews that assessed guidelines for promoting mental health in the workplace, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, 2023
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Figura 1. Etapas da identificação e seleção de revisões sistemáticas sobre recomendações de diretrizes para a promoção da saúde mental no local de trabalho, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil, 2023
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Figura 2. Síntese dos níveis de prevenção das principais recomendações identificadas nas revisões sistemáticas que avaliaram as diretrizes para promoção da saúde mental no local de trabalho, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil, 2023
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