Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 2020 Apr;74(4):657-658. doi: 10.1038/s41430-020-0581-z. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
Inadequate reporting in nutritional epidemiology study has important downstream consequences for the public and the reputation of the nutrition research. Poor reporting of nutritional studies can have serious implications on knowledge transfer, public health policy, and research. In addition, it is a significant and avoidable source of research waste. The STrengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology-nutritional epidemiology (STROBE-nut) statement comprises a set of 24 items, organised as a checklist, with minimal information to be included in manuscripts describing findings of nutritional epidemiology research and dietary assessment. The goal of STROBE-nut is to ensure all information is available to enable quality appraisal, correct understanding, effective replication and application of findings. It has been suggested that robust implementation of reporting guidelines will translate into more complete reported research. Furthermore systematic use of reporting guidelines can indirectly improve the methodological qualities of research papers. In this regard, if STROBE-nut becomes a common practice between the community of nutritionist and epidemiologist, it can enhance the quality of the nutritional epidemiology field output. We thus suggest the endorsement of STROBE-nut at the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
营养流行病学研究中的报告不充分会对公众和营养研究的声誉产生重要的下游影响。营养研究报告不佳可能会对知识转移、公共卫生政策和研究产生严重影响。此外，这也是一个严重且可避免的研究浪费来源。《流行病学营养观察研究报告的强化（STROBE-nut）声明》由 24 个项目组成，以检查表的形式组织，其中包含描述营养流行病学研究和饮食评估结果的手稿中应包含的最少信息。STROBE-nut 的目标是确保所有信息都可用，以确保对研究结果进行质量评估、正确理解、有效复制和应用。有人建议，报告准则的稳健实施将转化为更完整的报告研究。此外，系统使用报告准则可以间接提高研究论文的方法质量。在这方面，如果营养学家和流行病学家群体普遍采用 STROBE-nut，它可以提高营养流行病学领域的输出质量。因此，我们建议在《临床营养学杂志》上支持 STROBE-nut。
