Nutritional status of refugee children living in temporary settlements in Europe and MENA region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

"Declarations Ethical approvalNo ethical approval was required as the review concerns data from previously published studies. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Our systematic review was registered in PROSPERO under number CRD42022369667. For this systematic review and meta-analysis, a medical information specialist, experienced in systematic reviews, searched the following databases from 1990 to August 2022: Embase, MEDLINE, Global Index Medicus. The Global Index Medicus is a WHO database focused on low- and middle-income countries. We used both controlled terms (i.e., MeSH terms in MEDLINE) and free-text terms related to the nutritional status of refugee children (e.g., growth, nutrition, stunting). For full search strategies, see the appendix. Snowballing and citation coupling was used in order to find additional publications."