Dietetics

Welcome to the Dietetics Research Guide! This guide provides tools and strategies for navigating evidence-based practice, emphasizing how K-State Libraries' many resources can help you with this process. If this guide does not have the information you are looking for, please email Cindy Logan or Ask A Librarian for help during Library Help Desk hours.

• The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics defines evidence-based dietetics practice as involving "the process of asking questions, systematically finding research evidence, and assessing its validity, applicability, and importance to nutrition and dietetics practice decisions; and applying relevant evidence in the context of the practice situation, including professional expertise and the values and circumstances of patients/ clients, customers, individuals, groups, or populations to achieve"

Source: Hand, RK, Davis, AM, Thompson, KL, Knol, LL, Thomas, A, Proaño, GV. (2021). Updates to the definition of evidence-based (dietetics) practice: providing clarity for practice. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2021;121(8):1565–1573.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2020.05.014

• For further reading, from the Evidence Analysis Library, is this article Evidence-Based Practice: What Is it, and Why Is it Important to Registered Dietitians? By Robin Sabo, MS, RD, MLS. This article provides a good overview and history of evidence-based practive for dietitians.
• One of the earliest articles about evidence-based practice and dietetics was written by G.E. Gray and L. K. Gray in the Journal of the American Dietetics Association (the precursor to the Journal of the American Nutrition and Dietetics Association). This article is freely available to K-State faculty, staff, and students. The complete citation is Gray GE, Gray LK. Evidence-based medicine: application in dietetic practice. J Am Diet Assoc. 2002;102(9):1263-1272.