JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Human Immunodeficiency
Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Version: 2 Date: 01 May 2023
Reviewer:  Petmore Zibako
Reviewer's report:
1.well done for a good written manuscript
2. Correct  a grammatical error in your background  first line in the abstract.
3. You have not written a conclusion for the study, you have just put your results.
4.You can add the following key words: uptake; barriers
5.Put your recommendations under discussion not under conclusion.
Title: Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Human Immunodeficiency
Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Version: 2 Date: 02 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the Manuscript titled " Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer
Screening among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis " which falls within the aim of the Journal.
In my opinion, this topic analyzed is interesting enough to attract readers’ attention. The goal of
this review is to consider the uptake of cervical cancer screening and its barriers among Human
Immunodeficiency Virus-positive women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The abstract is very clear, well structured and highlights the results obtained in the study. Tables
and figures are clear and interesting.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of good quality, I would suggest the
following recommendations:
- I suggest round of language revision, in order to correct few typos and improve readability;
- It would be interesting to discuss how various factors could affect the persistence and/or
recurrence of cervical dysplasia, also considering HIV status. (In particular, I suggest these
articles to get deeper in the topic PMID: 36992282 and 35455328)
Because of these reasons, the article should be revised and completed. Considering all these
points, I think it could be of interest to the readers and, in my opinion, it deserves the priority
to be published after minor revisions.
Title: Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Human Immunodeficiency
Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Version: 2 Date: 10 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
I read  with great interest this manuscript. The aim of this study is to highlight  cervical
cancer screening among HIV-positive women in Sub Saharan Africa. I think that the abstract
is clear and interesting.  Maybe in order to extend and complete the work the treatment of
this disease should be highlighted . Furthermore, I suggest the analysis of the frailty of these
patients through indexes. Because of these reasons I suggest these two articles: PMID: 36141917
and The role of preoperative frailty assessment in patients affected by gynecological cancer: a
narrative review Ottavia D’Oria, Tullio Golia D’Auge, Ermelinda Baiocco, Cristina Vincenzoni,
Emanuela Mancini, Valentina Bruno, Benito Chiofalo, Rosanna Mancari, Riccardo Vizza,
Giuseppe Cutillo, Andrea Giannini Vol. 34 (No. 2) 2022 June, 76-83 doi: 10.36129/jog.2022.34.
Considering these modifications, the article has the priority to be published after minor revisions.
Title: Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Human Immunodeficiency
Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Version: 5 Date: 29 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
I thank the authors for the explanation of the comments of our suggestions. I only think that
maybe it could be useful the evaluation of possible frailty of these patients in order to focus
the screening for these particular cohort of patients. Because of this, I suggest to evaluate
this article :"The role of preoperative frailty assessment in patients affected by gynecological
cancer: a narrative review Ottavia D’Oria, Tullio Golia D’Auge, Ermelinda Baiocco, Cristina
Vincenzoni, Emanuela Mancini, Valentina Bruno, Benito Chiofalo, Rosanna Mancari, Riccardo
Vizza, Giuseppe Cutillo, Andrea Giannini Vol. 34 (No. 2) 2022 June, 76-83 doi: 10.36129/
jog.2022.34." After considering this insight of the topic, the article has the priority to be
published after minor revisions.
Title: Uptake and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening among Human Immunodeficiency
Virus-Positive Women in Sub Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Version: 6 Date: 02 Jun 2023
Reviewer:  Petmore Zibako
Reviewer's report:
1. Well done for a well written manuscript
2.In your abstract; conclusion is not listing your results,you should make your conclusion
from your results.
3.The results on uptake of cervical cancer screening not well reported ,just saw regional figures
did you come up with an average or any statistical calculation to paint the picture of the screening
uptake in Sub- Saharan  Africa
4.Put your recommendation under discussion and put a stand alone conclusion of the study not
putting results on conclusion
Title: Behaviors and practices of incarcerated women towards menstrual hygiene in a large
urban prison in Uganda: a phenomenological qualitative study
Version: 2 Date: 18 Mar 2023
Reviewer's report:
General Comments:
An informative study involving  a vulnerable group - female prisoners. However, the title"
Behaviors and practices of incarcerated women towards menstrual hygiene in a large urban
prison in Uganda: a qualitative study" is rather not proper when one consider the findings. Nearly
all the themes, except one, can be categorised as barriers towards menstrual hygiene. There is
need to revisit the title.
Specific comments:
Abstract - line 40 it is stated the ages of the women were in the range of 20-50 years but in line
43 the age range changes to 20 -59 years. There is need for harmonisation. By the way there is
no need to indicate the ages in the methods subsection.
Introduction - lines 74-76; there is need to harmonise the number of prisoners in Uganda Prisons.
This information should bev available from prison authorities in Uganda.
Methods and materials:
- there is need to correct the total number of  female prisoners 506 (line 100) versus 306 (line
115). Were 200 female prisoners away at the time of the sstudy?
Line 132 ...key informant interview guide for the female prisoners. were these not prison
Officers?
Line 139 - "Statistical Analysis" since this was a qualitataive study it ought to be "Data analysis".
lines  156-158   - Whreas there is a statement that "Prior to acquisition of informed consent, we
explained the purpose of the study, the selection criteria, the study benefits and potential harms,
and the withdrawal process in case the participants wanted to opt out of the study " there is no
indication that informed consent was obtained.
Results:
Lines 169-170 the sentence"The interviews with the wardresses lasted 40 minutes, on average."
is a repetition it already covered in a the sentence in methods lines 136 -137.
Table 1: shift greater or equal to 5 from column 2 to 1 (it is rather ocnfusing where it is now)
Lines 207-224; it is better to present findings from key participants (women prisoners) first then
the others(KIIs) later.
Discussion:
The first paragraph should be a summary of key findings and what they mean to the authors
before making comparisons with other paublishegd works.
Lines 308-308 the statement "We, therefore, implore prison authorities to continue providing
clean water supply to prevent water and sanitation hygiene related diseases among incarcerated
women" should be relocated to recommendations.
Lines 310-312  The statement "We found incarcerated women periodically received free
menstrual hygiene materials, although the materials were of poor quality as they could not
appropriately absorb menstrual blood, and some women reported experiencing blood-stained
clothes. " The quality of hygiene materails  was not presented in the results section.
Title: Behaviors and practices of incarcerated women towards menstrual hygiene in a large
urban prison in Uganda: a phenomenological qualitative study
Version: 2 Date: 26 Mar 2023
Reviewer's report:
1) Please harmonize the numbers in reference to prison capacity. Somewhere you say Uganda
has 54,059 prison but in the same sentence you say that about 37,447 people. Please clarify
(page 3, lines 74-76)
2) You mention that you excluded participants with known mental disorder(s) because they
would not be able to comprehend and meaningfully participate in the study. You need to clarify
on this, first of all people with active symptoms of mental illness are not kept in prison but rather
referred to a mental health facility for treatment. Second, people with mental illness function
well in between episodes. Excluding them from the study is an ethical. A clear explanation on
how you arrived at the decision to exclude them is required. Also clarify on how you assessed
them for mental illness and how you confirmed that they had a mental illness.
3) How many participants were excluded on the basis of mental illness
4) Please provide information on how the interview guides were developed
5) How many of the prisoner participants were approached for possible participation and how
many of these declined consent to participate. Of those who declined to participate what were
the common reasons?
6) You had a sample of 306 eligible women to participate but interviewed 15 women. You
mentioned to assigned codes, elaborate on how these codes enabled you to select 15 women
out of 306
7) Please note that most of your quotes have [meaning …e.g. meaning officer in charge]. Please
remove the word meaning on all the quotes and leave as [officer in charge] or [frequent change
of sanitary pads] instead of [meaning frequent change of sanitary pads]
8) The discussion is section just lists that the findings are similar to what already exists in
literature. It is necessary that the discussion goes deeper to discuss what these results mean
beyond them being similar with what exists in the literature. Yes, they are similar but so what?
9) In the conclusions the authors note: “These inadequacies among incarcerated women should
be prioritized by the prison health authorities.” How should be prioritized, what interventions
do you recommend?
10) Please ensure that the conclusions in the abstract are in line with the conclusions in the main
abstract
11) Overall there are typing errors which need to remove through a thorough revision of the
manuscript. E.g., incinerated women
Title: Behaviors and practices of incarcerated women towards menstrual hygiene in a large
urban prison in Uganda: a phenomenological qualitative study
Version: 3 Date: 22 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
1) In the methods section the authors seem to suggest that they developed the codebook after
coding the transcripts. Please clarify on how you coded the data without a codebook. What was
the purpose of the codebook that you developed after coding the data? See lines 155-159, page 9.
Title: Quality of life and its associated factors among women diagnosed with pelvic organ
prolapse in Gynecology outpatient department Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples
region public referral hospitals, Ethiopia
Version: 3 Date: 07 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Title: Quality of life and its associated factors among women diagnosed with pelvic organ
prolapse in Gynecology outpatient department Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples
region public referral hospitals, Ethiopia
1. On line 36 in the abstract the key word are like phrase, better to make it as words because
it says key word not phrase and add specific place and year because the key word is searching
engine.
2.  On Table 1 how you estimate the economic status of the participants because most of your
participants are in rural areas which is difficult to estimate the economic status. So what methods
did you use to estimate? I need justification.
3. On table 1 also what is your base to classify the age of the participants in to 3 categories?
4. On table 4 of logistic regression you are putting the P value.  What is the significant of putting
P value over the confidence I interval?
Because the width of the confidence interval and the size of the p value are related, the narrower
the interval the smaller the p value
However the confidence interval gives valuable information about the likely magnitude of the
effect being investigated and the reliability of the estimate.
So better to remove the p value in the table because there is no additional information over the CI
5. As general better to revise the grammar of your manuscript as much as possible
Title: Quality of life and its associated factors among women diagnosed with pelvic organ
prolapse in Gynecology outpatient department Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples
region public referral hospitals, Ethiopia
Version: 3 Date: 14 May 2023
Reviewer:  Yitagesu Sintayehu
Reviewer's report:
Comment
Dear authors, first I want to appreciate your timely research, especially for Ethiopia. I have seen
your document in detail. You have given time for your work, it is well written and clear, and
it is in the excellent stage for publication with the following minor comments, and suggestions
find here below.
Thank you again for your work.
Abstract
Result section: rather than expressing the quality of life as poor (negatively, it is better to express
it as good quality of life (positively). If express the result on the poor side, it may difficult for
your reader to understand in which direction your associated variables are affecting the outcome.
Also, add the confidence interval for the result (overall poor quality of life was 57.5%)—the
same comment on line 197.
It is advisable to avoid using abbreviations/acronyms in the abstract section, like EPI, POP, …
Background
On lines 48 and 52, you used acronyms before you define them during the first use. So, use them
with the full term when it appears for the first time.
Method
On lines 128 and 130, what is the use of those two operational definitions (Symptoms of prolapse
and Duration of prolapse) for this study?
Result
Under Table 1, your age category has no equal age range. Why this difference has happened?
Under Table 3: you stated “Prevalence of QoL domain score above median score (%)”, which
is 57.5%. However, you are reporting this prevalence as poor quality of life. So, do you think
your report is in line with your result?
Under Table 4: what is your baseline for the classification of parity per your classification and
add the p-value of parity AOR.
Discussion
Under the discussion section, line 234-237, you stated as your prevalence is similar to some
studies conducted in different countries. However, your justification for this one is not for
similarity (it indicates difference). Please check it.
Under line 235, you used a study conducted in France 54.5%(40) for comparison with your
study for similarity. But, is this study (France) result is appropriate for this case (inline in the
objective?)?
Conclusion
Under this section, on lines 276-280, you recommended to the Ethiopian government, while
your study is on a single region. So, better to give this recommendation to the study area.
Title: Quality of life and its associated factors among women diagnosed with pelvic organ
prolapse in Gynecology outpatient department Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples
region public referral hospitals, Ethiopia
Version: 8 Date: 13 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for your response and explanation. But still I have doubt in the measurement of the
wealth index.  Because in your data processing and analysis part, you are not show how the
economic status is analyzed as well as in your questionnaire, there is no any variables used
for the measurement of the wealth index, simply you are asked the monthly income which is
no feasible in rural communities.  So as me, better to remove this variable unless, you are not
measuring in appropriate way by using the principal component analysis. Or if you have the
collected data ,please re analysis this variable  separately by using PCA and re insert it.
Title: Effectiveness of the Positive Youth Development (PYD) Program on Reducing
Aggression Among High school female students
Version: 2 Date: 07 Apr 2023
Reviewer:  Fatih Aydo#du
Reviewer's report:
This study reveals an important work for reducing the aggressive behavior of high school female
students. However, there are many problems that need to be fixed. I have reported these issues
on file. Also, to summarize;
1. You should review your research methodologically and base it on theoretical foundations.
2. It should be reported why the study was conducted on high school female students and in
the Yazd region.
3. The hypotheses of the research should be established.
4. By reviewing the method section; Detailed information about the sample should be shared,
the content and scope of the program should be explained, and the collection and analysis of data
should be mentioned. Images of the application should be shared for the sessions of the program.
5. The consistency of the results should be reviewed in the summary, findings and discussion
section.
6. The discussion part should be reconsidered. If the results are not as expected, the discussion
should be expanded, supplemented by your comments and literature.
7. The conclusion, suggestion and limitation section should be given separately and the written
statements should be placed in the appropriate sections.
Title: Effectiveness of the Positive Youth Development (PYD) Program on Reducing
Aggression Among High school female students
Version: 2 Date: 16 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Experimental studies contribute to the related field. Congratulations to the authors for doing this
work. However, there are some points that need to be regulated in the study.
background
While writing the introduction of the study, there is a problem in the subject integrity between
single-sentence paragraphs and paragraphs. The intro needs to be addressed.
This study is an experimental study on aggression of female students. In the introduction, more
comprehensive theoretical information is needed to explain the aggressive behavior of female
students. For example, there is information in the literature that verbal and relational aggression,
rather than physical aggression, of female students can be seen more than males.
Method
There is also a need to add pretest scores arranged in descriptive statistics.
ANCOVA is a more powerful analysis than the T-test. so I don't understand why you added this
analysis. It's good to have it out.
It should be noted that there are general scores of aggression.
What kind of arrangements were made in the sessions for female students while the program
was being prepared.
What was considered for the internal and external validity of the experimental study. How long
did the sessions last?
Results
An explanation of the Eta square size should be added to the verbal aggression findings.
Significant level sign should be reviewed in verbal aggression findings.
Discussion
The expression "Positive Youth Development training had little effect in reducing adolescent
aggression" little effect is not appropriate. should be written more clearly
Why didn't the program work? No explanation about it. What difficulties did you encounter in
the process? In which sessions do the researchers think there is a problem? Or what cultural
variables might be about the program not working?
Title: Nehiyawak (Cree) Women’s Strategies for Aging Well. Community-Based Participatory
Research in Maskwacîs, Alberta: The Sohkitehew (Strong Heart) Group
Version: 3 Date: 01 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
This manuscript was a pleasure to read and will make a valuable contribution to the literatures
pertaining to a number of areas - aging, wellbeing, Indigenous community health and
participatory approaches.
Some minor revisions will lend clarity and add to the strength and rigor of the study.
I look forward to seeing the work in print!
Title: Nehiyawak (Cree) Women’s Strategies for Aging Well. Community-Based Participatory
Research in Maskwacîs, Alberta: The Sohkitehew (Strong Heart) Group
Version: 3 Date: 06 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for this community-based participatory preliminary research project - using a
strength-based approach to explore Cree women’s strategies for aging well.
Community engagement involved community members, researchers, and an Elders Advisor
committee in co-design and research processes.
The setting (including land, rurality, healthcare provision, social support, education, and post-
secondary education) is described with great detail, contributing to the readers’ understanding
about the four Nations (who share similar traditions, culture, and language), forming the
Maskwacis Tribal Council.
Detail about smudging, sharing food, and visiting along with the circle seating is well-presented,
along with data collection methods comfortable for the participants. Rigour in data collection
and analysis was ensured.
OCAP principles guided the research, as well, ethical approval was obtained from two University
Human Research Ethics Boards.
Page 31 line 675 – please change the word “shall” to “will”.
Figures are concise and well-designed, as are the postcard-style information with strategies for
aging well.
Title: Nehiyawak (Cree) Women’s Strategies for Aging Well. Community-Based Participatory
Research in Maskwacîs, Alberta: The Sohkitehew (Strong Heart) Group
Version: 5 Date: 10 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for this community-based participatory preliminary research project - using a
strength-based approach to explore Cree women’s strategies for aging well.
Community engagement involved community members, researchers, and an Elders Advisor
committee in co-design and research processes.
The setting (including land, rurality, healthcare provision, social support, education, and post-
secondary education) is described with great detail, contributing to the readers’ understanding
about the four Nations (who share similar traditions, culture, and language), forming the
Maskwacis Tribal Council.
Detail about smudging, sharing food, and visiting along with the circle seating is well-presented,
along with data collection methods comfortable for the participants. Rigour in data collection
and analysis was ensured.
OCAP principles guided the research, as well, ethical approval was obtained from two University
Human Research Ethics Boards.
Figures are concise and well-designed, as are the postcard-style information with strategies for
aging well.
Title: Nehiyawak (Cree) Women’s Strategies for Aging Well. Community-Based Participatory
Research in Maskwacîs, Alberta: The Sohkitehew (Strong Heart) Group
Version: 5 Date: 26 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
All recommendations requested from the first have been attended to and the revised  manuscript
is clear, well composed and makes a valuable contribution.
I look forward to seeing this work in print!
Title: Patterns in the Prevalence and Wealth-based Inequality of Cervical Cancer Screening in
India
Version: 2 Date: 30 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Great paper and much needed evidence for factors affecting cervical cancer screening in India.
Overall good paper. Methodology and results are well structured. Discussion needs changes
and focus on the conclusions drawn from the analysis rather than other aspects such as fear of
screening as a cause of low uptake of cervical cancer screening. How inequity seen in the results
needs to be examined and the fact that govt. health insurance is a positive influence should be
highlighted. References used in the discussion are limited. There is literature out there which
discusses regional variations and reasons for the same along with inequity.