JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Does Diet and Activity Lead to Difference in Resting Energy Expenditure in Obese
Women?
Version: 4 Date: 19 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
# Review
- The major remark is a small sample size of the study.
- English proof editing is recommended. There are some typographical errors throughout the
text.
- When and where was the study conducted?
- The Authors included “non-obese subjects as a control group”. However, what is the cut-off
for non-obese? Were the overweight group included in the control group?
- Instead of “p-value=0.00” it should be written p<0.001.
- What are the limitations of the study?
- For many statements the references need to be provided in both, the Introduction and the
Discussion section: “Low resting energy expenditure (REE) is considered as a risk factor for
weight gain leading to Obesity. It was shown that detecting impairment in REE may predispose
an individual to weight gain is difficult once that subject is obese”; “Other studies showed REE
in obese people was similar to normal weight people”; “Similarly, we showed an association
between UCP2 protein and resting energy expenditure in another study. We demonstrated an
increased risk of reduced resting energy expenditure in obese subjects with low levels of UCP#
protein”;  “Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are a group of mitochondrial proteins which dissipate
proton electrochemical gradient across the mitochondrial membrane. By this mechanism, UCPs
may uncouple substrate oxidation from conversion of ADP to ATP, leading to generation of heat
and thus increased EE”, “Some studies have revealed down-regulation of metabolism genes in
obese subjects”, “In our study, the predicted resting energy expenditure was measured using the
Harris-Benedict equation”, “Some studies have shown that obese women spend significantly
more time on resting or sedentary behaviors than lean women every day”,
- The Discussion section should start with the summary of the main findings of the present study.
- The Conclusion should be more precise, instead of the following: “In some obese people resting
energy expenditure was much lower compared to other obese people.”
- All the references are older than 5 years. The references should be up-to-date.
Title: Does Diet and Activity Lead to Difference in Resting Energy Expenditure in Obese
Women?
Version: 4 Date: 25 Apr 2023
Reviewer:  Violante di Donato
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the Manuscript titled " Does Diet and Activity Lead to Difference
in Resting Energy Expenditure in Obese Women?, topic interesting enough to attract readers'
attention. Authors should clarify some points and improve the quality of manuscript:
- To date, diet restriction and fasting gained increasing popularity due to the possibility to modify
metabolism, even in durable way to epigenetic modulation. In a fasting condition, indeed,
metabolic imbalance typical of PCOS may improve significantly. I would discuss this point,
referring to recent articles about the hypothesis: PMID: 28735644; PMID: 27510483
- Accumulating evidence suggests that several vitamin dysbalances, as well as nutraceutical
supplementation to counteract them, may play a significant role on women’s health. Since the
importance of the topic, I would discuss, at least briefly, adding more details. Authors may refer
to: PMID: 26927948; PMID: 27916823.
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: Translation and measurement properties of the pelvic floor distress inventory-short form
(PFDI-20) in Iranian reproductive age women
Version: 0 Date: 20 Mar 2023
Reviewer's report:
1. The stated objective of the study is to determine psychometric properties of PFDI-20 among
women of reproductive age in Tabriz, Iran. There are many strengths of the manuscript including
interest in the topic, their following of WHO's guidelines and Eortc Quality of Life Group
Translation Procedure Guidelines.
2. My main concern relates to the non-use of the COSMIN guideline to report the study results.
Although the authors describe the use of WHO's guidelines and Eortc Quality of Life Group
Translation Procedure Guidelines, it is unclear why the COSMIN was not used, even though it
is a guideline aimed at improving the selection of outcome measurement instruments.
3. It is essential that some aspects of the evaluation procedure are clarified: Did the
professional(s) administer the measurement without knowledge of scores or values of other
repeated measurement(s) in the same patients? Did the professional(s) assign scores or determine
values without knowledge of the scores or values of other
repeated measurement(s) in the same patients?
4. For continuous scores it is suggested to use the Standard
Error of Measurement (SEM), Smallest Detectable Change (SDC), Limits of Agreement (LoA)
or Coefficient of Variation (CV) calculated. Why these analyzes were not used?
5. In order to present the strengths of the study, I suggest that the discussion start resting the aim
and objective(s) and indicating whether they were fulfilled or not.
Title: Translation and measurement properties of the pelvic floor distress inventory-short form
(PFDI-20) in Iranian reproductive age women
Version: 2 Date: 18 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for reviewing and adjusting this paper. Despite this, some points still need to be
carefully reviewed.
Summary:
- The authors do not show in the abstract that they performed the analysis of measurement errors
or their results. I suggest presenting it briefly, in accordance with the Journal's guidelines.
Background:
- Please merge paragraphs 2 and 3 together.
Methods:
- Please review all acronyms in the text (e.g., EFA, CFA, CVI, CVR). Some were not defined
when they first appear in the text.
- Page 10: please exclude ", measure CVR and CVI for content validity, calculate impact score
for face validity, measure CFA and EFA for structural validity, and calculate Cronbach’s alpha
coefficient, McDonald's Omega Coefficient, and ICC to determine reliability". This part is
repetitive.
- Page 10, line 3: Would "VR" be "CVR"? Please proofread the writing.
- Page 10, line 4: Please enclose Ne and N in quotation marks (e.g., "Ne", "N").
- Page 10,  line 5: Please delete this sentence "CVR value is determined based on the Lawshe
table".
- Please make it clear in the text if EFA and CFA were conducted on the same sample.
Results:
- Although the authors present some results in the Tables, they are not briefly reported in the text.
Please report in the text how many participants entered the EFA and CFA. Briefly summarize
the results of the measurement errors in the text (can be total value only, not by subscale).
- Page 15, lines 19-20: Please exclude "were measured to determine the reliability of the tool".
It is repetitive.
Discussion:
- Page 17, line 5: Please correct the word "properties".
- Briefly discuss the measurement error results in the text. What do they mean?
Table 2: Please standardize the acronyms for POPDI-6, CRADI-8 and UDI-6.
Figure 1: The PFDI-20 structural model shows two correlations between items 1 and 2, 7 and 8,
but they were not reported in the text. Please mention in the results on structural validity this.
Title: Knowledge and beliefs about oocyte cryopreservation for medical and social reasons in
female students: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Version: 0 Date: 18 Mar 2023
Reviewer:  Filippo Alberto Ferrari
Reviewer's report:
Dear respectable editor,
I am grateful to have the opportunity to review the manuscript entitled “Knowledge and beliefs
about oocyte cryopreservation for medical and social reasons in female students” by Ranjbard et
al. The topic is actual and very intersting and literature lacks about cryopreservation for medical
and social reasons in low and middle income countries. Nonetheless, some reflections are needed
before publication:
- I suggest to add to keywords “fertility sparing treatment”
- I advice to shorten the introduction reducing the general part on egg freezing and focusing
more on available literature on the situation in Iran.
- Methods are well described and statistical analysis is clear and reproducible.
- In the Discussion it should be stressed the importance of an adequate counseling by a
multidisciplianry team in case of cancer in reproductive age. The presence of ART specialist
should be implemented in referral centers.
- In the limitations of the study the limits related to the study design need to be clearly reported.
Title: Knowledge and beliefs about oocyte cryopreservation for medical and social reasons in
female students: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Version: 1 Date: 25 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
"PEER REVIEWER ASSESSMENTS:
OBJECTIVE - Full research articles: is there a clear objective that addresses one or several
testable research questions? (Brief or other article types: is there a clear objective?)
Yes - there is a clear objective
DESIGN - Is the current approach (including controls and analysis protocols) appropriate for
the objective?
Yes - the approach is appropriate
EXECUTION - Are the experiments and analyses performed with sufficient technical rigor to
allow confidence in the results?
Yes - experiments and analyses were performed appropriately
STATISTICS - Is the use of statistics in the manuscript appropriate?
Yes - appropriate statistical analyses have been used in the study
INTERPRETATION - Is the current interpretation/discussion of the results reasonable and not
overstated?
Yes - the author's interpretation is reasonable
OVERALL MANUSCRIPT POTENTIAL - Has the author addressed your concerns sufficiently
for you to now recommend the work as a technically sound contribution? If not, can further
revisions be made to make the work technically sound?
Yes - current version is technically sound
PEER REVIEWER COMMENTS:
GENERAL COMMENTS: I carefully evaluated the revised version of this manuscript.
The authors have performed the required changes, improving significantly the quality of the
paper."
Title: Implementation of an mHealth intervention to increase adherence to triage among HPV
positive women with HPV - self-collection (ATICA study): post-implementation evaluation
from the women's perspective
Version: 1 Date: 03 Mar 2023
Reviewer:  Claire Nightingale
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this manuscript. I enjoyed reading about the ATICA
study, the paper was really well thought out, and logicial in its flow. I really liked the use of the
implementation outcomes framework.
There are a couple of things that I would like clarity on:
Firstly,  only 78% of women remembered receiving the result, but then you report that 97.2%
found it acceptable - how did you explore acceptability when women did not remember even
receiving it?
Secondly, 89.9% women found the message useful to remind them to attend for their result,
but only three quarters of women did attend for their result (was this correct)? please expand
on this point.
Other than that, there are a few small things:
- there is a word missing in the abstract - first line of methods "study"
- please add a reference/s to the point that adherence to triage is hard for people with self-
collected tests, and potentially expand on why?
- Any non-standard abbreviations make things harder to read, please spell out cervical cancer
- does mhealth need to be defined?
- add the N into the results where % are shown, I think that this improves readability
- at one point in the discussion, the word "remainder" is used when this should be "reminder"
Good luck with the publication. Great piece of work.
Title: Implementation of an mHealth intervention to increase adherence to triage among HPV
positive women with HPV - self-collection (ATICA study): post-implementation evaluation
from the women's perspective
Version: 1 Date: 17 Apr 2023
Reviewer:  Georgios Michail
Reviewer's report:
This post implementation study assesses the attitudes of women who participated in self
sampling programs for cervical screening in northwest Argentina. The authors might wish to
consider adding the word “attitudes” alongside “evaluation” in the title, to increase reader’s
interest
Vaginal and urine self sampling implementation in cervical screening has been accelerated
impressively during the COVID pandemic, enhanced by cost-effectiveness priorities &
reallocation of health resources and funding. With self sampling modalities initially proposed
as an alternative for women reluctant to participate in clinician-based cervical screening, it is
easy to understand that adherence to a triage exam involving interaction with a health worker
represents an obstacle, especially in LMIC’s (as the author’s correctly point) because of several
barriers (social, financial, etc) Triage in positive self samples can be performed in the same self
sample biologic material (annulling the need for a second visit); however this is beyond the
scopes and the design of the study.
End-user (patient) acceptability is essential for the successful of self-sampling techniques in
cervical screening; this represents a growing niche in vaginal and urine self sampling literature.
Subtle differences in implementation might result in significant differences in uptake.
While unsure on the relevant requirements in this type of studies, I failed to identify any
statement regarding compliance with GDPR policies in the manuscript.
The questionnaires have been comprehensively composed and are adequately designed for the
scopes of this study. Most Tables are descriptive.
The study indeed provides useful evidence that could help in the scaling up of the SS
interventions.
Some language polishing might be useful.
Title: Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18
Version: 1 Date: 03 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Early marriage can negatively affect individuals and society, particularly young girls. Early
marriage may lead to health risks, limited education, domestic violence, and economic burden.
It is important to address the root causes of early marriage and promote education and
empowerment for girls and young women. Hence, the submitted manuscript has public health
importance, and I appreciate the scientific efforts represented by this work.
Overall, it is a well-written manuscript. However, there are some areas where the authors
can make some improvements. For example, in the Methods section (explanatory variables
and statistical analysis), the author could provide brief information on how they generate
community-level variables and compute Global Moran’s I statistic instead of referring to the
other literature. The Results section discusses Table 3 first and then Table 2. It is good to discuss
them based on the order of the number.
In the Discussion section (paragraph 3), the authors provided information like “…They operate
awareness-building programs and impose relevant laws at the root level to prevent early
marriage. It is also common in Bangladesh that upazila and union parishad administrations stop
early marriages on the day of occurrence by reaching the victims’ homes. They usually do
so upon receiving information through their official channels (e.g., hotlines) as well as other
sources. Some upazila and union parishads have been able to declare their jurisdictions free from
child marriage…”. References are required for these statements.
Title: Spatial pattern and influential factors for early marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
Demographic Health Survey Data 2017-18
Version: 1 Date: 17 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
It is a pleasure to review the article. The authors contributed to our understanding of early
marriage by showing the spatial heterogeneity of it in Bangladesh. The writing was clear, the
methodology was sound and the results were reliable. However, before its publication in BMC
Women’s Health, I would like to raise some minor problems for authors’ consideration.
1) The authors seemed to view early marriage as an abnormal marriage behavior (e.g., the 2nd
paragraph on page 11 and 1st paragraph on page 13). I am wondering whether the authors noticed
the view of early marriage and reproduction as an adaptive response to adverse conditions, e.g.
poverty or health challenges. A related issue is that some hot spots of early marriage might have
low socio-economic level than cold spots. Could the authors show us the heterogeneity of socio-
economic development between hot and cold spots?
Reference: Geronimus, A.T. What teen mothers know. Human Nature 7, 323–352 (1996).
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02732898
2) “Early marriage is highly prevalent in Bangladesh” was repeated for two times in abstract.
3) One sentence on page 9 was confusing: “We found around 20% variation in early marriage
across the 672 clusters included in the 2017/18 BDHS which reduced to only 7% once
individual-, household- and community-level factors were adjusted for in the final model”. I
hope the authors can clarify it.
Title: Women's Voices: The Lived Experience of HIV-Positive Women in the Postpartum
Period at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Referral Hospital, Ethiopia: A
Phenomenological Study
Version: 1 Date: 01 May 2023
Reviewer:  Kowsar Qaderi
Reviewer's report:
Thank you.
It is my honor to read and review your interesting paper. In the abstract, methods,
Please mention the number of your participants (Sample size ).
1194 words for introduction is more than usual. Please summarize it.
Title: Women's Voices: The Lived Experience of HIV-Positive Women in the Postpartum
Period at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Referral Hospital, Ethiopia: A
Phenomenological Study
Version: 1 Date: 04 May 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review the manuscript entitled “Women's Voices:
The Lived Experience of HIV-Positive Women in the Postpartum Period at the University of
Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Referral Hospital, Ethiopia: A Phenomenological Study”.
I have some comments for this manuscript below:
1. The authors should mention how many participants partake in the survey and how to analyze
the data in the methods of the abstract.
2. The authors should present a brief introduction as well as conclusion
3. The authors should give more detail on how to develop the instrument. Is it based on any
theory?
Title: Spatial distribution and factors influencing modern contraceptive practice among tribal
married women in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey 5 (2019-2021)
Version: 2 Date: 26 Mar 2023
Reviewer:  Olusegun Sunday Ewemooje
Reviewer's report:
This article deals with a very interesting topic; however, the manuscript needs to be improved.
Introduction
The introduction needs to be more comprehensive. You can adopt a funnel approach in which a
global view is discussed first, followed by the regional view and then specific country view.
Method
Under explanatory variable, the definition given to these variables are different from what is
presented in the results e.g., age was grouped as “15–24 years”, “25–34 years”, and “35–49
years” while under results they appear as "15-19", "20-24", etc.
Also, Exposure to media variable was created using three variables such as “exposure to social
media”, “exposure to TV”, and “Exposure to radio” but appear as "not at all", "less than once
a week" and "at least once a week".
Results
Statements on the characteristics of study participants are too general, there is need to revisit
them and be more specific e.g., "majority of the study subjects were between the ages of 25-29
years" is not correct as only 20.1% belong to the age group.
Line 223, ... where more than 50% of the tribal ... should be written as "... where almost 70%
(68.7%) of the tribal..."
In line 235-236, check this statement - " Interestingly the findings showed that unemployed
married tribal women (61.3%) were using modern contraceptives more than that of employed"
the result in Table 3 shows the reverse.
In table 4, what inform the use of higher education as the reference category? I will suggest
use of illiterate (No formal education) as presented under variable definition for better/ease of
discussion.
What also inform the use of "yes" as the reference category under tobacco use? I want to
believe that the variable was included to understand the contribution of tobacco use to modern
contraceptives usage. Please, correct this.
Why present crude OR in Table 4? It was discovered that nothing was said about it in the
manuscript as all interpretations and discussion were based on adjusted OR. You can as well
remove it from the table.
Discussion
In line 355-359, the statements are hanging as these cannot be inferred from the results of this
study. Please, check and if possible remove.
The district-level variation is not interpreted and discussed. The title may then be misleading
as the modern contraceptive's usage where not adequately analyzed and discussed. Hence,
appropriate title should be given accordingly.
General Comments
Every abbreviation must be defined at first use e.g.  In abstract under conclusion, what is IEC?
The manuscript school be proofread.
Title: Spatial distribution and factors influencing modern contraceptive practice among tribal
married women in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey 5 (2019-2021)
Version: 2 Date: 04 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
The authors should be commended for the effort in trying to bring a neglected issue to the fore.
Women from less privileged regions usually have poor knowledge of contraception and this has
an effect on the quality of life.
However, there are quite a number of issues that need to be addressed before the paper is suitable
for publication.
1. The manuscript is full of grammatical errors that makes reading and following the ideas
presented a little difficult. A few examples are as follows;
i. Line 48 (Abstract); the word ‘specially’ should be ‘especially’ and should be followed by ‘the’.
ii. Lines 76-77; the concluding part of that statement is not clear
iii. Line 88; ‘brought out’ could be replaced with ‘revealed’/’showed’/’indicated’ etc to make
reading easier
iv. Line 125 ‘nation’ should be ‘national’
v. Line 166; I believe the word ‘personals’ should be ‘personnel’
vi. Line 181; remove ‘at’ after ‘examine’
vii. In line 302; kindly revise the statement
viii. Line 332-333; the statement after ‘US’. I can’t quite understand what the authors meant.
2. I do not understand why the authors did not include knowledge of contraception and
contraceptives in their objectives. That could be the springboard for further analysis of the other
factors like the types of contraceptives or method of contraception preferred.
3. There are some inconsistencies in the text that the authors need to check again. A few include;
i. Line 58, 2019-21 should be written as 2019-2021 or 2019 to 2021.
ii. In lines 149-150, the age groupings mentioned were only three (3), i.e. 15-24, 25-34 and
35-49. In Table 1 however, they were seven (7). Kindly check and revert.
iii. What was the basis for the age groupings? Because 35-49 years, the interval is more than the
usual 9 years difference the authors employed earlier on.
iv. The total participants number stated by the authors was 91976. However, in Table 1, the
totals don’t match up. For e.g. under ‘Age distribution’, it is 91973, same for ‘Education level’
v. In line 242 (Table 3), the total percentages down the column don’t add up to 100%. Kindly
explain.
vi. You claim to use adjusted odds ratio. Kindly tell us what variables were adjusted for and why
vii. In line 272, ‘Fear of side effects’ in what proportion?
4. In the discussion portion the authors made attempts at comparing the results of the current
study to other studies. The authors also tried to discuss possible reasons for a particular trend/
occurrence. However, in many instances, the suggestion is given for a certain observation even
before a comparison is drawn to other studies.
5. Conclusions should come before limitations (i.e. Strengths and Weaknesses)
6. The study is more of an epidemiological one and as such will be more credible with an
extensive review of literature. The authors should cite a lot of literature as 31 is too scanty for
such a study.