Nutrition Research Methods
Designing nutrition dissertations with appropriate methodology — systematic reviews (PRISMA 2020, Cochrane Nutrition Field standards, GRADE), RCT design (parallel vs crossover, washout period, blinding, allocation concealment, CONSORT reporting), observational epidemiology (cohort, cross-sectional, nested case-control, Mendelian randomisation for causal inference), dietary pattern analysis (principal component analysis PCA, factor analysis, reduced rank regression RRR, Dietary Pattern Score), and intervention design (dietetic behaviour change, COM-B model, BCW Behaviour Change Wheel). UK datasets: NDNS, UKHLS, UK Biobank dietary data.