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Background: Dietary imbalances are leading risk factors for the global burden of disease. Research evidence can inform investment in effective interventions to address malnutrition. A new Cochrane Nutrition Field (CNF) has been proposed to support the preparation and use of Cochrane nutrition reviews, to promote evidence-informed nutrition policy and practice. Given that no best practice for priority-setting exists, ascertaining nutrition research priorities already identified across existing regional and global priority-setting exercises may be useful to inform the CNF’s activities.
Objectives: To map priority topics for nutrition research from available priority-setting exercises.
Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International) database, Web of Science, and Google (January 2010 to 16 March 2016) to identify nutrition priority-setting reports in any language. Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts from database searches and the first 100 Google results, and potentially eligible full-texts. We included reports if they: specified nutrition research priorities or topics; documented prioritisation processes; and referred to regional or global priorities. Disagreements were resolved through discussion. We will extract data, in duplicate, on: author affiliations; consensus methods; frequently occurring topics; geographic region; publication date; and conflict of interest reporting. We will describe data narratively, create summary topic categories for analysis, and map priorities into intervention categories, namely nutrient-based; food-based; nutrition education, counselling and coordination of care; or policies, programmes or systems that influence nutrition outcomes.
Results: We screened 512 records, 29 of which are eligible. Data extraction and analysis is in progress and will be presented at the Colloquium.
Conclusions: This project will identify overlapping nutrition research priorities that, along with future stakeholder engagement, will inform the CNF’s activities around topics for new reviews and for which review evidence exists for dissemination.
Objectives: To map priority topics for nutrition research from available priority-setting exercises.
Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International) database, Web of Science, and Google (January 2010 to 16 March 2016) to identify nutrition priority-setting reports in any language. Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts from database searches and the first 100 Google results, and potentially eligible full-texts. We included reports if they: specified nutrition research priorities or topics; documented prioritisation processes; and referred to regional or global priorities. Disagreements were resolved through discussion. We will extract data, in duplicate, on: author affiliations; consensus methods; frequently occurring topics; geographic region; publication date; and conflict of interest reporting. We will describe data narratively, create summary topic categories for analysis, and map priorities into intervention categories, namely nutrient-based; food-based; nutrition education, counselling and coordination of care; or policies, programmes or systems that influence nutrition outcomes.
Results: We screened 512 records, 29 of which are eligible. Data extraction and analysis is in progress and will be presented at the Colloquium.
Conclusions: This project will identify overlapping nutrition research priorities that, along with future stakeholder engagement, will inform the CNF’s activities around topics for new reviews and for which review evidence exists for dissemination.