Strategies to support the mental health and well-being of migrant LGBTQIA+ college and university students: a scoping review protocol.

OBJECTIVE

This review will identify and explore strategies employed by health care professionals, higher education institutions, and organizations to support the mental health and well-being of migrant lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+) college and university students.

INTRODUCTION

Migrant LGBTQIA+ students face substantial challenges to their identity formation and social development while studying in their newly settled countries. Little is known about how colleges and universities support LGBTQIA+ students' mental health and well-being from the perspectives of migration status, stigma, and discrimination. Understanding what is known about strategies to support migrant LGBTQIA+ students can inform future policy directions for promoting LGBTQIA+ mental health and well-being in the context of higher education.

INCLUSION CRITERIA

This review will incorporate literature from all geographical contexts that focuses on strategies to support the mental health and well-being of migrant LGBTQIA+ college and university students. Literature not related to LGBTQIA+ migrant students will be excluded.

METHODS

The JBI methodology for scoping reviews will be followed, and the review will be reported in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines. Several databases and sources of gray literature will be searched from 2004 onward. The review will include literature published in any language and will be independently screened by 2 reviewers. A modified JBI data extraction tool will be used and data will be presented as diagrams along with narrative summaries to answer the review questions.

REVIEW REGISTRATION

Open Science Framework https://osf.io/bj2hu/.