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Additional file: Description of data: additional material related to free list interviews and annexes.

The present study refers to a qualitative research phase conducted in Italy, that precedes the implementation of the pragmatic trials, which aims to identify and describe priority mental health and psychosocial problems and needs of migrants and stakeholders affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, to be used to guide the adaptation and implementation of DWM and PM+.

Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Search Strategy.

Additional file 2: Appendix S2. Quality Appraisal.

Additional file 1: Table 1. Factors associated with psychological distress (GHQ-12 positive) in the sample recruited in the Verona site. Table 2. Factors associated with depression (HRSD group score) in the sample of people with psychological distress.

Increasing migratory processes and growing cultural diversity require to rethink usual patient approaches: how can a health professional diagnose and treat properly a patient if only relying on its own meaning of health and illness, without knowing other attitudes towards medical practices? The question becomes even more complex when the Other is encountered to understand and deal with psychological and existential suffering. This difficulty can be recognized in the confusion of both professional and patient as they attempt to answer questions not always shared or translatable. Migrants’ presence in care services and Law courts not only give us information about ourselves and our ways of taking care but it imposes a challenge, both epistemological and practical. It forces us to think back our models of well-being, etiology and treatment of suffering, because they are always incomplete and partial. The research aims to investigate – through three different studies and three different methods: questionnaire, interviews, ethnography - psychological assessment encounter between clinical mental health/forensic professional and migrant patient, focusing on practices, lived experienced, perceived difficulties, use of assessment instruments and diagnosis. This research tries to propose a theoretical reflection on these issues, integrating ethno- psychiatric and phenomenological perspective.