Research Resources

The Research and Evidence-Based Practice committee collect materials that can be used to teach enquiry and research. If you wish to share any learning objects that others can use please contact secretariat(at)efad.org

Webinars

Webinar on “Evidenced-based practice in dietetics”

This webinar to help you create clear, precise questions using PICO to search literature and plan a research project. You will also gain an understanding of the GRADE system for developing practice guidelines. You will be introduced to a database of evidence based practice written by dietitians for dietitian which uses both of the above.

About the speakers: Judy Lawrence is a policy officer at the British Dietetic Association with a special responsibility for encouraging dietitians to be research active. Judy supports dietitians applying for research funding and research training and has recently been involved in the awarding of funding for a BDA project looking at the effectiveness of dietitians working in primary care. She is currently reviewing abstracts submitted for the BDA research symposium.
Eleanor Johnstone is also a policy officer at the British Dietetic Association, her role involves supporting members to get involved with evidenced-based practice. Eleanor facilitates members to contribute to and review evidence relating to nutrition and dietetics. She is currently establishing a group of members to help embed outcomes within dietetic practice.

Papers

Categories: Guide

How to write an abstract

Last Modified: November 2 2019
Categories: Guide

REBP- Gaps between recommendations and evidence

Last Modified: October 11 2012
Tags: Research
Categories: Research Paper

Dietetic evidence derived from Randomized Controlled Trials

Last Modified: October 10 2014
Tags: Research
Categories: Research Paper

Examples of gaps between evidence and practice

Last Modified: October 10 2014
Tags: Research
Categories: Guide

Writing a Proposal

Last Modified: December 16 2015
Tags: Research
Categories: Guide

Evidence Based Practice

Last Modified: March 2019
Tags: DIETS2, Research

Research tools

Research tools are a rapidly changing area and the REBPC have compiled a list of available and generally free resources to help with various parts of the research process.

Any additional suggestions are welcome, please email us using the contact link.

General research tools and resources

 

 

Qualitative research

  • GRADECERQual guidelines from qualitative research
  • TAMS (Text analysis markup system) Mac only
  • QDA miner lite enables analysis of textual data such as interview and news transcripts, open-ended responses, etc. as well as for the analysis of still images with basic CAQDAS features.
  • RDQA is a R package for Qualitative Data Analysis

 

Primary research tools

Systematic review tools

 

 

Best practices submitted by European colleagues

Categories: Guide

Evidence Based Practice Dietetics

Last Modified: March 2019
Tags: Research