Title
Multilingualism in providing quality mental health care to migrants – needs, resources and practices (Pilot Study)
Funding
”La Caixa” Foundation (Spain), Wellcome Trust (UK), Volkswagen Foundation (Germany) and Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark)
Duration
01.11.2020 – 02.08.2021
PI
Mike Mösko, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Partner
Kristin Bührig, Department of Language, Literature, Media; University Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Schouten, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan D. ten Thije, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Leslie Swartz, Department of Psychology & Christine Anthonissen, Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, South-Africa
Brian J. Hall, Department of Psychology, University of Macao, China
Razvan Chereches, Department of Public Health, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Summary
In preparing of the second application level for the call for proposal “Mobility – Global Medicine and Health Research - Joint call – 2020” proposal, a pilot study was carried out. In each of the five countries between six and ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients/migrants, mental health professionals, authorities, and experts on multilingualism in mental health care.
The experts were recruited based on a purposive sampling approach with experts included on micro-, meso- and macro-level respectively to reach a broad perspective on the topic. The interviews aimed to identify the challenges migrants face concerning access to and treatment in the (mental) health care system. Specifically, the challenges, resources and consequences of language barriers were investigated along with what political and institutional changes would be necessary to overcome these.