Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan
Abstract Objective: Humanitarian aid, including food aid, has increasingly shifted towards the provision of cash assistance over in-kind benefits. This paper examines whether food security mediates the relationship between receipt of humanitarian cash transfers and subjective wellbeing among Syria...
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Abstract
Objective:
Humanitarian aid, including food aid, has increasingly shifted towards the provision of cash assistance over in-kind benefits. This paper examines whether food security mediates the relationship between receipt of humanitarian cash transfers and subjective wellbeing among Syrian refugee youth in Jordan.
Design:
Secondary analysis of the 2020–21 Survey of Young People in Jordan, which is nationally representative of Syrian youth aged 16–30. We employ stepwise model building and structural equation models.
Setting:
Jordan.
Participants:
Syrian refugee youth aged 16–30 (n 1572).
Results:
While 92 % of Syrian households with youth received cash transfers from a UN agency, 78 % of households were food insecure using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Fifty-one percent of youth suffered from poor wellbeing using the WHO-5 subjective wellbeing scale. Household food insecurity was associated with poorer youth wellbeing. Receiving larger cash transfer amounts was associated with better wellbeing among Syrian youth in unadjusted models. The relationship between receipt of cash transfers and youth wellbeing was not mediated by food security.
Conclusion:
We do not find support for the hypothesis that food security is a mediator of the association between cash transfers and subjective wellbeing for this population.
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| spelling | doaj-art-58929a1d9fd74435b381a5c3876004232025-01-27T11:38:08ZengCambridge University PressPublic Health Nutrition1368-98001475-27272025-01-012810.1017/S1368980024002660Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in JordanMaia Sieverding0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0996-9654Zeina Jamaluddine1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2074-9329Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonFaculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Abstract Objective: Humanitarian aid, including food aid, has increasingly shifted towards the provision of cash assistance over in-kind benefits. This paper examines whether food security mediates the relationship between receipt of humanitarian cash transfers and subjective wellbeing among Syrian refugee youth in Jordan. Design: Secondary analysis of the 2020–21 Survey of Young People in Jordan, which is nationally representative of Syrian youth aged 16–30. We employ stepwise model building and structural equation models. Setting: Jordan. Participants: Syrian refugee youth aged 16–30 (n 1572). Results: While 92 % of Syrian households with youth received cash transfers from a UN agency, 78 % of households were food insecure using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Fifty-one percent of youth suffered from poor wellbeing using the WHO-5 subjective wellbeing scale. Household food insecurity was associated with poorer youth wellbeing. Receiving larger cash transfer amounts was associated with better wellbeing among Syrian youth in unadjusted models. The relationship between receipt of cash transfers and youth wellbeing was not mediated by food security. Conclusion: We do not find support for the hypothesis that food security is a mediator of the association between cash transfers and subjective wellbeing for this population. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1368980024002660/type/journal_articleCash transfersFood securityYouthSubjective wellbeingRefugees |
| spellingShingle | Maia Sieverding Zeina Jamaluddine Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan Public Health Nutrition Cash transfers Food security Youth Subjective wellbeing Refugees |
| title | Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan |
| title_full | Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan |
| title_fullStr | Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan |
| title_short | Receipt of humanitarian cash transfers, household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of Syrian refugee youth in Jordan |
| title_sort | receipt of humanitarian cash transfers household food insecurity and the subjective wellbeing of syrian refugee youth in jordan |
| topic | Cash transfers Food security Youth Subjective wellbeing Refugees |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1368980024002660/type/journal_article |
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