Jones-Antwi Rebecca E, Owens Caroline, Hadley Craig, Cunningham Solveig A
Department of Public Health, Baylor University, Waco, TX76798, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA30322, USA.
Public Health Nutr. 2024 Dec 26;28(1):e11. doi: 10.1017/S1368980024002544.
To explore the meanings that newly arrived refugee adolescents residing in the Southeastern USA attribute to foods.
We used methods from cognitive anthropology to assess whether adolescents from different countries share a cultural model of eating behaviours.
A school-based study in a community in the Southeastern USA.
Adolescents (10-17 years) who arrived in the USA on a refugee visa in the previous year.
Adolescents showed consensus in grouping items and in identifying some foods as associated with adults and others with children. There was evidence of a shared model of eating practices across age, gender and number of siblings. Adolescents who had lived in a refugee camp were significantly different in how they grouped items.
Adolescents from nine countries shared a model of eating behaviours; these patterns are consistent with rapid dietary acculturation within 1 year of arrival or with shared models held from pre-arrival. Our finding that adolescents who recently arrived in the USA generally agree about how foods relate to one another holds promise for generalised nutrition and dietary interventions across diverse adolescent groups.
探究居住在美国东南部的新抵达难民青少年赋予食物的意义。
我们运用认知人类学方法来评估来自不同国家的青少年是否共享饮食行为的文化模式。
美国东南部一个社区的一项基于学校的研究。
前一年持难民签证抵达美国的青少年（10 - 17岁）。
青少年在对食物进行分类以及确定某些食物与成年人相关、其他食物与儿童相关方面表现出共识。有证据表明不同年龄、性别和兄弟姐妹数量的青少年共享饮食行为模式。曾居住在难民营的青少年在食物分类方式上存在显著差异。
来自九个国家的青少年共享饮食行为模式；这些模式与抵达后1年内迅速的饮食文化适应一致，或者与抵达前持有的共享模式一致。我们的研究发现，最近抵达美国的青少年通常对食物之间的关系达成共识，这为针对不同青少年群体的普遍营养和饮食干预带来了希望。
