William Arnold, Lachat Carl, Ahles Sanne, Murphy Karen J, Minihane Anne-Marie, Weaver Connie, Shyam Sangeetha, Rigutto-Farebrother Jessica
Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Eur J Nutr. 2025 Feb 1;64(2):76. doi: 10.1007/s00394-024-03561-1.
Inadequate reporting of nutrition data can hinder the success of nutrition health policies. CONSORT provides guidance for reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and is required by most journals today, yet reporting of nutrition interventions may benefit from a more tailored approach. A Federation of European Nutrition Societies working group was created to improve quality and completeness of reporting of nutrition trials, and our work to date features a proposal for a CONSORT extension specific to nutrition RCTs. The present manuscript describes a Delphi survey conducted to gather opinion from a wider panel of nutrition and health experts and related interest-holders on our proposal.
We invited 138 potentially eligible participants to take part in the Delphi survey from a representative spread of expertise and geography. We employed a Likert scale with comments for our 32-item proposal in round 1, and a dichotomous scale with comments for our 29-item proposal in round 2. Threshold for agreement was set at ≥ 80% for both rounds.
Forty-seven potentially eligible participants responded to our invitation, 38 completed the first round and 36 completed the second. N = 23 (72%) items achieved ≥ 80% in round 1, and 100% of items in round 2. Three items were dropped or merged following round 1. A third Delphi round was not required to obtain consensus.
This Delphi expert consensus proposes a 29-item checklist specific to the reporting of nutrition RCTs and will inform further development of guidance through forthcoming consensus meetings.
营养数据报告不充分可能会阻碍营养健康政策的成功实施。CONSORT为随机对照试验（RCT）的报告提供指导，如今大多数期刊都要求遵循该指导，但营养干预措施的报告可能受益于更具针对性的方法。欧洲营养学会联合会成立了一个工作组，以提高营养试验报告的质量和完整性，我们目前的工作提出了一项针对营养RCT的CONSORT扩展提案。本手稿描述了一项德尔菲调查，旨在从更广泛的营养与健康专家及相关利益相关者小组中收集对我们提案的意见。
我们从具有代表性的专业领域和地域分布中邀请了138名可能符合条件的参与者参加德尔菲调查。第一轮，我们对32项提案采用了带有评论的李克特量表，第二轮对29项提案采用了带有评论的二分制量表。两轮的共识阈值均设定为≥80%。
47名可能符合条件的参与者回复了我们的邀请，38人完成了第一轮，36人完成了第二轮。第一轮中，N = 23项（72%）达到了≥80%，第二轮所有项目均达到了100%。第一轮后，有3个项目被删除或合并。不需要进行第三轮德尔菲调查来达成共识。
这项德尔菲专家共识提出了一份针对营养RCT报告的29项清单，并将通过即将召开的共识会议为指南的进一步制定提供参考。
