Perspectives on the application of CONSORT guidelines to randomised controlled trials in nutrition.
CONSORT
Dietary interventions
Expert opinion
Guidelines
Nutrition trials
Reporting
Journal
European journal of nutrition
ISSN: 1436-6215
Titre abrégé: Eur J Nutr
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 100888704
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
07
12
2022
accepted:
21
03
2023
medline:
17
7
2023
pubmed:
26
4
2023
entrez:
26
4
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Reporting guidelines facilitate quality and completeness in research reporting. The CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement is widely applied to dietary and nutrition trials but has no extension specific to nutrition. Evidence suggests poor reporting in nutrition research. The Federation of European Nutrition Societies led an initiative to make recommendations for a nutrition extension to the CONSORT statement towards a more robust reporting of the evidence base. An international working group was formed of nutrition researchers from 14 institutions in 12 different countries and on five continents. Using meetings over a period of one year, we interrogated the CONSORT statement specifically for its application to report nutrition trials. We provide a total of 28 new nutrition-specific recommendations or emphasised recommendations for the reporting of the introduction (three), methods (twelve), results (five) and discussion (eight). We also added two additional recommendations that were not allocated under the standard CONSORT headings. We identify a need to provide guidance in addition to CONSORT to improve the quality and consistency of the reporting and propose key considerations for further development of formal guidelines for the reporting of nutrition trials. Readers are encouraged to engage in this process, provide comments and conduct specific studies to inform further work on the development of reporting guidelines for nutrition trials.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37099211
doi: 10.1007/s00394-023-03137-5
pii: 10.1007/s00394-023-03137-5
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2319-2332Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany.
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