STUDI LITERATUR DUKUNGAN SOSIAL TERHADAP KESEHATAN MENTAL SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to everyday life. The existence of social support is a buffering factor for the adverse effects of mental health. High social support can provide many benefits for mental health stability. Objective: This study aims to determine social support for mental health during the covid-19 pandemic. Methods: The research design used is a literature study by conducting a review. Literature was taken from 4 databases; Scient-Direct, Google Scholar, Proquest and Semantic Scholar. The initial journal obtained 885,134 then was screened with publications in 2020-2021 with 16,817 results. Furthermore, the journals were selected with the criteria of journals in the form of full text, journals that could be accessed for free with 1,112 results and the final results in accordance with the research objectives were 13 journals, journals were excluded because they used the literature review research method. Journals were analyzed using JBI with an average yield of 75%. Results: From 13 research journals, researchers found social support for mental health during the covid-19 pandemic, namely: the form and impact of social support during the covid-19 pandemic, as long as social support during the covid-19 pandemic and the groups that received the most social support during the covid-19 pandemic. 19. Discussion: High social support from social networks, friends and family provides many benefits for improving mental health during the covid-19 pandemic. Adolescents and women are impacted the most from COVID-19 and they have more support than any other group