Nutrition Methodology & Assessment
A section of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Section Information
Dietary surveys play an important role in monitoring the nutritional status of populations and evaluating relationships between diet and health. Dietary assessment can be used to describe types and amounts of food and food components, either actual or habitual intakes, and potential exposure to risks. Dietary assessment can be further used to compare dietary patterns across populations or changes over time to highlight current and future public health topics, but the usage of different assessment methods and instruments still limits the comparability across studies and populations over time. As misreporting of intake challenges the investigation of associations with health outcomes, the use of biomarkers may provide a solution: they complement the results of self-reported dietary assessment. Modern data management faciliates the application of innovative technologies (e-health, m-health) for dietary assessment and feedback to populations. The modern information system increasingly allows for collaboration between surveilance systems or research groups and among citizens.
We encourage the submission of manuscripts that provide novel insights and papers that report significant advances in the fields. Topics include, but are not limited, to:
- Methodological studies, such as validation studies, biomarker studies, pilot studies, and studies on diet quality indices/scores;
- Dietary assessment methodologies in different contexts such as surveillance programs, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials;
- The role of dietary assessment in e-health and in m-health applications;
- Methods to explain health outcomes based on dietary intake or behavior patterns using innovative statistical methods;
- Application of causal inference methodology to answer substantial nutrition questions from complex survey data; and
- Applications for dietary management, dietary education, and dietary feedback to survey participants and populations.
Keywords
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Nutritional Assessment for the Identification and Monitoring of Malnutrition in Patients with Chronic Diseases (Deadline: 5 May 2024)
- Nutritional Assessment and Monitoring of Children (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- Eating Behavior, Dietary Patterns and Health Outcomes: Insights from Research and Practice (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Assessment of Dietary Intake and Related Health Issue in the Elderly—Where Are We and What Is Next? (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- The Impact of Nutritional Education and Food Policy on Consumers (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Nutritional Screening and Assessment of Different Populations (Deadline: 5 September 2024)
- Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Human Health (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Nutritional Survey and Dietary Assessment in the Age of Big Data (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- The Role of Dietary Assessment and Nutritional Surveys in Human Health (Deadline: 16 December 2024)
- Italian Diet Survey: Contribution to Nutrition and Sustainability Aspects (Deadline: 25 December 2024)
- Nutritional Recommendations for Chronic Kidney Disease: Principal Mechanisms and New Approaches (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: