"to support this trend" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe doing something that reinforces a trend that has already started. For example, "We have implemented strategies to support this trend toward increased customer engagement with our brand."
To support this trend, the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) community has developed advanced techniques for designing new DSLs.
And when it comes to commuters, recent research seems to support this trend: in 2014 researchers at McGill University found that train commuters were happier than drivers or bus riders.
One of the bits of biological evidence that seems to support this trend is the bark beetle epidemic, which has swept the West and devastated much of the Colorado lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests in the last decade.
Through its population plan, the Southern Trust is aware it has the highest rate of births and therefore will need suitable maternity services to support this trend.
In seeking to support this trend to use science to protect and empower people, the UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group UNISDR STAGG) in collaboration with the Major Group on Science and Technology UNN 2014h) has made a voluntary commitment for an international partnership to mobilize science for action on DRR and resilience building.
That said, the sample isn't massive; sales have "crashed" from approximately 3,000 in May 2009 to 1,300 in May 2010, according to the release, using data from web analytics firm Hitwise based on searches for mobile broadband to support this trend.
There is ample evidence to support this worrisome trend.
To support this growing trend, companies such as Viking River Cruises, Avalon Waterways, AmaWaterways and Uniworld have expanded their fleets, introducing a combined 20 new ships to waterways across the globe in 2014.
To support this growing trend, several groups around the world have identified the competencies that the doctor are required to have.
Preliminary statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also support this trend, showing that both heroin and synthetic drugs overtook deaths due to prescription opioids in 2016.
Do you support this trend?
