227 MentalHealth4All - a multilingual communication platform to promote access to mental healthcare for low language proficient migrants and mental healthcare providers across Europe

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MentalHealth4All addresses unequal access to mental healthcare faced by low language proficient migrants and refugees, who experience language and culture-related barriers. The EU-funded project develops a multilingual, culturally sensitive, evidence-based digital information and communication platform with partners across multiple European countries. Thirteen partners design, test, and implement six work packages guiding an integrated evidence-based workflow. The experimental work flow includes prospective effect evaluation and process evaluation via a pretest-posttest cross-national survey study. Dissemination and broader applicability for low language proficient migrants across Europe are highlighted.

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2nd World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health Abstract Book vi55 Abstract citation ID: ckaf180.152 227 MentalHealth4All: a multilingual communication platform to promote access to mental healthcare for low language proficient migrants and mental healthcare providers across Europe Emilio Di Maria1,2, The MentalHealth4All Consortium, Liza van Lent3, Barbara Schouten3 1University of Genova, Genova, Italy 2University Unit of Medical Genetics, Galliera Hospital, Genova, Italy 3Department of Communication Science/ASCoR, Center for Urban Mental Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands OP 22: Mental Health 4, B302 (FCSH), September 4, 2025, 14:45 - 15:45 Aims: About one billion people worldwide suffer from mental health. Although migrants and refugees have a higher risk, they are also less likely to access mental healthcare due to languageand culture-related barriers. The main goal of the EU-funded MentalHealth4All project ([https://www.mhealth4all.eu/](https://www.mhealth4all.eu/)) is to promote low language proficient migrants and refugees’ access to mental healthcare. Partners are from the Netherlands (coordinator), Belgium, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Methods: 13 partners from 9 European countries were committed to develop, test, and implement a multilingual, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based digital information and communication platform in mental healthcare. The project is comprised of six work packages aimed at an integrated development of the evidence-based work flow. The study protocol was cleared by the relevant ethical review boards ofthe coordinating centre and partner centres. The last (currently ongoing) experimental part of the project work flow performs vi56 European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 35, Supplement 6, 2025 the prospective effect-evaluation (primary objective) and processevaluation (secondary objective) of the intervention across Europe. by means of a pretest-posttest cross-national survey study. Results: Building on the integrated work packages that were completed along the accomplishment the project, the evidence-based digital information and communication platform was developed in fifteen languages to promote low language proficient migrants access to mental healthcare. In line with the benefits of co-creation, the partners collaborated closely with mental healthcare providers and LLP migrants to develop the intervention. The results regarding the multilingual platform’s effect- and process-evaluation will be presented. Discussion: The broad European geographical coverage of the MentalHealth4All consortium ensures wide dissemination of the project results to the healthcare providers community as well as to the users’ population. This intervention could be used to improve access to mental healthcare services for any low language proficient migrants and refugees across Europe.

FAQs

What is the main goal of the MentalHealth4All project?

To promote access to mental healthcare for low language proficient migrants and refugees by reducing language and culture-related barriers through a digital platform.

How does the project evaluate the intervention?

It uses a pretest-posttest cross-national survey to perform prospective effect evaluation (primary) and process evaluation (secondary) across Europe.

What outcomes are reported about the multilingual platform?

The platform was developed in fifteen languages, with partners collaborating with mental healthcare providers and LLP migrants to support co-creation of the intervention.

Sep 30, 2026

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