Title: Exploration factors on smoking among female adolescents based on the viewpoints of
Iranian adolescent girls
Version: 0 Date: 08 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
1- I suggest using the word " exploration" instead of the word "explanation", which is more
appropriate for a qualitative study.
2- The title of the category should also be mentioned in the abstract of the method section
3- This sentence is ambiguous, please correct it. The software in qualitative research only
categorizes and the analysis is done by the researcher so there is no need to say it “Data
collection and management were done with MAXQADA software version 10, but data analysis
and interpretation were done manually”
4- In the abstract of the article, mention where the research was done.
5- I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscript. There are
numerous instances of improper grammar and sentence structure. Editing the paper by native
speakers is important in qualitative research. .
6- The use of emotional words like " unfortunately " in scientific articles is not very common,
please correct
7- I suggest you use the following articles in the introduction .
Yoosefi Lebni, J.., Ziapour, A., Qorbani, M., Khosravi, B., Mirzaei, A., Safari, O., ... & Özdenk,
G. D. (2021). Explaining the causes of crystal addiction in Tehran: a qualitative approach.
Journal of Public Health, 29 (1). pp. 95-101.. #
8- Based on which reference?  “Smoking among Iranian women has always been a taboo, and
it has decreased in recent years, and Iranian women have also become more inclined to smoke”
9- In the last paragraph of the introduction, you should fully explain why you used the qualitative
method?
10- Be corrected because the impact can not be mentioned in qualitative articles   “this study
was conducted to explain the effective/psychological factors in the tendency of adolescent girls
to smoke based on a qualitative method of content analysis in Mashhad, Iran”
11- In method session .
- What kind of content analysis? Please mention
-Explain the exclusion and inclusion criteria
-In the method section, reference 17 is not very relevant, please delete it
-The method of data collection in the abstract section and the method do not match. In-depth
or semi-in-depth interviews or both?
- Explain more about how participants access and select
Please provide the interview questions in the table.
- State the time and place of the interviews - the average time of the interviews
- Your description of the data analysis method is incomplete and ambiguous. Please explain
further
- Please explain how ‘theoretical saturation’ was judged. I assume it was judged to have been
attained when no new themes or information emerged in subsequent interviews. It would be
helpful to justify your point about saturation and sample size with a reference to a methodological
text, to support your point. I suggest you refer to the following articles:
-Mansourian, M., Taghdisi, M. H., Khosravi, B., Ziapour, A., & Özdenk, G. D. (2019). A study
of Kurdish women’s tragic self-immolation in Iran: a qualitative study. Burns, 45(7), 1715-1722
-Explain more about how the Goba and Lincoln criteria are used. Just saying that you used them
is not enough.
12- In the results section
- Present the demographic characteristics of the participants in a new table.
- Mention important characteristics of the participant such as, age, etc. at the end of each quote
- Provide more in-depth explanation of the following categories. It is more a description than
an explanation
13- In the discussion section,
-The discussion can be improved further by include more previous study, try to add more study
and be more logical.
-emphasize the new research findings and mention what your research added to the previous
research
-A lot of the discussion felt like it was either restating findings from the results or bringing up
findings that were not in the results, rather than really discussing what the results mean. I think
this paper would be much stronger if the results were expanded to really describe all the different
aspects of each category. Then, the discussion could focus on what this means and why it matters.
- Please mention the limitations and strengths of the research