Human Nutrition Laboratory, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Laboratory for Nutrition and Metabolic Epigenetics, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, LFV E14.1, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
Eur J Nutr. 2023 Aug;62(5):2319-2332. doi: 10.1007/s00394-023-03137-5. Epub 2023 Apr 26.
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.
报告准则可提高研究报告的质量和完整性。CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials（CONSORT）声明广泛应用于饮食和营养试验，但没有针对营养的专门扩展。有证据表明营养研究的报告情况不佳。欧洲营养学会联合会发起了一项倡议，为 CONSORT 声明提出营养扩展建议，以更有力地报告证据基础。
一个由来自 12 个不同国家和 5 个大洲的 14 个机构的营养研究人员组成的国际工作组。通过一年的会议，我们专门对 CONSORT 声明进行了审查，以了解其在报告营养试验方面的应用。
我们总共提供了 28 条新的营养特定建议或强调建议，用于报告引言（3 条）、方法（12 条）、结果（5 条）和讨论（8 条）。我们还增加了另外两条不在标准 CONSORT 标题下分配的建议。
我们认识到需要提供除 CONSORT 之外的指导，以提高报告的质量和一致性，并提出了进一步制定营养试验报告正式指南的关键考虑因素。鼓励读者参与这一过程，提出意见并进行具体研究，为营养试验报告指南的进一步发展提供信息。
