PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Vanessa Place AU - Karima Assel AU - Ana Hagström AU - Ester Gubi AU - Hanna Augustsson AU - Christina Dalman AU - Anna-Clara Hollander TI - Effect and process evaluation of a multicomponent public health intervention to increase the use of primary care-based mental health services amongst children with a migrant background in Stockholm, Sweden: a protocol for a mixed-methods study AID - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052820 DP - 2021 Jul 01 TA - BMJ Open PG - e052820 VI - 11 IP - 7 4099 - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/7/e052820.short 4100 - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/7/e052820.full SO - BMJ Open2021 Jul 01; 11 AB - Introduction The overall aim of the project is to understand how to increase access to, and use of, primary care-based mental health services for children and youth from a migrant background with mild to moderate mental health problems.Methods and analysis The study will be undertaken in Haninge municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. The study has three intervention components: (1) A health communication intervention targeting parents of children/youth with a migrant background; (2) Training of professionals and volunteers who potentially have contact with parents and children with a migrant background, in order to increase the number of referrals to primary care-based mental health services, and (3) Increasing access to care at a primary care-based mental health service for children, using various strategies to lower barriers to care. The complex multicomponent intervention will be studied with an effect and a process evaluation methodology.Ethics and dissemination All planned studied are approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority dnr 2017-135-31/5, 2019-06275, 2020-03640, 2020-06341, 2020-03642 and 2020-04180. Informed consent, written or verbal, will be obtained from all participants. The results of the project will be published continually in peer-reviewed scientific journals and disseminated to relevant stakeholders nationally and within Haninge municipality.