2024/07/16 by Grant, Shannan, Lee-Baggley, Dayna, Stoneman, Scott +8
#Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition #Medicine and Health Sciences
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/6wvea
This dietitian-led scoping review identified and mapped peer-reviewed and gray literature, sharing Canadian Registered Dietitians’ (RDs’) perceptions of, experiences with, and/or knowledge of weight-related evidence in nutrition care. Implementing JBI scoping review methodology, four databases were searched: 1) CINAHL (EBSCO); 2) Medline (Ovid); 3) Embase (Elsevier); and 4) Scopus (Elsevier). Reference linking was also conducted. Google and Bing were searched for gray literature. Three JBI-trained independent reviewers completed screening to extraction. Conflicts were resolved by the senior/corresponding author and co-principal investigator. Community consultation was conducted using the Delphi Method. Of 2217 results, 67 were included in the review (29 peer-reviewed; 38 gray). Identified frequencies were 67 examples of perception, 54 of experience, and 51 of knowledge. Weight-related evidence was identified in nutrition care in various settings, including research and practice, representing nutrition assessment, diagnoses, interventions, monitoring, and evaluation. These findings serve as a foundation for a global/international review and provide details on Canadian context. This work also provides a foundation for effective evaluation of dietitian-led intervention fidelity, utility, and effectiveness, using systematic review or other research designs. Lastly, this review identified diverse definitions/ perspectives; highlighting the benefits of continuing to discuss and explore this topic within and beyond dietetics.