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

Abstract 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 language- and culture-related barriers. The main goal of the EU-funded MentalHealth4All project (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 of the coordinating centre and partner centres. The last (currently ongoing) experimental part of the project work flow performs the prospective effect-evaluation (primary objective) and process-evaluation (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.