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ArticleNutrients2019

"I Feel like I'm Eating Rice 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week": Dietary Diversity among Asylum Seekers Living in Norway.

Sigrun Henjum, Bess L Caswell, Laura Terragni

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Article in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Diabetes and Foot Health Among South Asian People Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom: A Theory-Informed Scoping Review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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  3. Migration health research in Norway: a scoping review.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sigrun HenjumDepartment of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University, 0130 Oslo, Norway. shenjum@oslomet.no.
Bess L CaswellDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. blcaswell@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6529-5370
Laura TerragniDepartment of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University, 0130 Oslo, Norway. lterragn@oslomet.no.
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University · NOUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

OsloMet; Imdi 000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food insecurity is widespread among asylum seekers resettled in Western countries. Limited information exists on the quality of food intake in this population. The aim of this study was to investigate dietary quality among asylum seekers living in Norwegian reception centers. This study has a cross-sectional research design. Dietary intake was assessed through a qualitative 24-hour dietary recall, and the dietary diversity score (DDS) was calculated. This study was conducted in eight Norwegian reception centers. A total of 205 adult asylum seekers (131 men and 74 women) participated in the study. The asylum seekers ate on average two meals per day, and one-third ate their first meal after noon. Mean (SD) DDS was 4.0 (1.6) and 2/3 had low dietary diversity, eating from fewer than five food groups. Women had a significantly higher mean DDS (4.5) than men (3.8) (β (95% CI): 0.47 (0.00, 0.95) and a higher consumption of vegetables and fruits. The longer the period of residence in Norway, the higher the DDS, β (95% CI): 0.01 (0.00, 0.02). The asylum seekers' inadequate dietary intake reveals new forms of poverty and social exclusion in Europe. An inadequate dietary intake may increase the magnitude of difficulty involved in the settlement process and contribute to poorer health.

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AdultCross-Sectional StudiesDiet, HealthyFemaleFood SupplyHumansMaleMiddle AgedNorwayOryzaRefugeesasylum seekersDietary diversityfood securityhungerNorway

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PMID31561439
PMCPMC6835806
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