ArticleBMC public health2026
Silent struggles: food insecurity and mental health among Syrian refugees in Türkiye.
Article in BMC public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundFood insecurity is a major global public health concern that particularly affects refugees and is associated with adverse mental health outcomes. This study examined the relationship between food insecurity and mental health among Syrian refugees living in Türkiye (Turkey).
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted with 566 adult refugees (37.1% male, 62.9% female) recruited through snowball sampling between February and May 2024. Data were collected using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), and the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS).
resultsOverall, 61.3% of participants were food secure, while 25.8% and 12.9% experienced moderate and severe food insecurity, respectively. Severe food insecurity was strongly associated with higher depression, anxiety, and stress scores, and with lower wellbeing (p < 0.001). Regression analysis showed that each one-point increase in FIES score was associated with a 0.234-point decrease in wellbeing, while each one-point increase in depression score was associated with a 0.324-point decrease in wellbeing. Lower income, limited education, female gender, and larger household size were significantly linked to food insecurity.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates the close link between food insecurity and poor mental health among Syrian refugees in Türkiye. Addressing these issues requires culturally sensitive, language-accessible, and community-based interventions. Longitudinal research with objective measurements is needed to clarify causal pathways and inform sustainable policies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.