Perspective: Consideration of Values When Setting Priorities in Nutrition Research: Guidance for Transparency.

ABSTRACT: Nutrition research can guide interventions to tackle the burden of diet-related diseases. Setting priorities in nutrition research, however, requires the engagement of various stakeholders with diverse insights. Consideration of what matters most in research from a scientific, social, and ethical perspective is therefore not an automatic process. Systematic ways to explicitly define and consider relevant values are largely lacking. Here, we review existing nutrition research priority-setting exercises, analyze how values are reported, and provide guidance for transparent consideration of values while setting priorities in nutrition research. Of the 27 (n = 22 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 5 grey literature documents) studies reviewed, 40.7% used a combination of different methods, 59.3% de

SUBMITTER: Hawwash D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6247169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature