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/.