{
  "abstract": "Introduction Forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European Region have high mental health needs, yet few manage to access mental health services and even fewer receive high-quality care. Addressing this gap is crucial, as inadequate mental health support has profound and lasting negative effects on individuals, families and communities. This scoping review aims to identify and synthesise the available evidence on the barriers and facilitators to quality mental healthcare for forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European Region.Methods and analysis Quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method studies that examine barriers and facilitators of quality mental healthcare for forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European Region will be included. Eligible participants include forcibly displaced children and adolescents, mental healthcare providers, policymakers and humanitarian actors in the mental health and psychosocial support field. We will adhere to the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for Scoping Reviews) guidelines. A comprehensive search of databases, including Embase, Medline, PsycINFO, Scopus and Web of Science, will be conducted. We will systematically search for relevant studies published between January 2004 and December 2024. At least two reviewers will independently screen titles, abstracts and full texts. Data extraction will involve systematically charting relevant information from included studies. We will use the WHO Quality Standards for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services as an analytical lens to map the evidence. Our study will provide a comprehensive overview of the barriers and facilitators to quality mental healthcare for forcibly displaced children and adolescents, and identify knowledge gaps and areas for potential quality improvement.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval will not be required since this study will retrieve data from already published research and no new data will be collected. The results of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at international conferences in order to disseminate to academic and non-academic stakeholders such as non-governmental organisations, government bodies and community organisations involved in mental healthcare for forcibly displaced persons.Review registration details https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AK74F.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Hamburg, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Lars Dumke"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK",
        "East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Shobhana Nagraj"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Engineering, International Health System Research Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK",
        "Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hanan Abukmail"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Malte Behrendt"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Erva Nur Cinar"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "WHO Athens Office on Quality of Care and Patient Safety, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Anastasia Giannaki"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "WHO Athens Office on Quality of Care and Patient Safety, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Jennifer Hall"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Mohammad Sharif Razai"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Ingo Schäfer"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Gemma Whyatt"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK",
        "Norwich Medical School, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK",
        "School of Psychology, Sport and Sensory Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Eleanor Chatburn"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Barriers and facilitators to quality mental health care for forcibly displaced children and adolescents in the WHO European Region: protocol for a scoping review",
  "uid": "3efd5419-f4ba-5646-a28f-62c4d12e3323"
}