Proposal for a Standardised Reporting Guideline to Annotate Health-related Self-Quantification Experiments

Area of Science:

• Scientific methodology
• Data management

Background:

• Self-monitoring experiments are increasingly prevalent in complex research environments.
• The interpretation and reproducibility of these experiments depend significantly on available meta-data.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a standardized reporting guideline for annotating self-monitoring experiments.
• To facilitate the interpretation and enhance the reproducibility of self-monitoring data.

Main Methods:

• Development of a standardized reporting guideline.
• Annotation of self-monitoring experiments using the proposed guideline.

Main Results:

• The proposed guideline standardizes the annotation of self-monitoring experiments.
• Facilitates improved data interpretation and experimental reproducibility.

Conclusions:

• Standardized reporting guidelines are crucial for self-monitoring experiments.
• May lead to future standards for platform interoperability and data sharing.