JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: The Miscarriage Circle of Care: Towards Leveraging Online Spaces for Social Support
Version: 2 Date: 28 Jun 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this interesting and well-written article. I found the
method novel and interesting. I have a few comments as presented below.
I am worried that the article is too long, and thus lacks clarity and focus. Therefore, I suggest
halving the results chapter. The interesting findings are lost in detail, so I would recommend
taking one more round of analysis in order to raise the results one level of abstraction.
Furthermore, I recommend that you present only one quote per module of text. I addition, the
summary can be saved until the end of the chapter.
I the discussion section, I do not think the scenarios provide much value, as most of the
information has already been presented. Therefore, I suggest that you consider deleting it.
Regarding the aspect of eHealth, I would ask the authors to handle the results with caution when
it comes to drawing conclusions from technology use in daily life to technology as part of the
health care services. There is not necessarily a connection between the use of technology in daily
life and use and satisfaction of an eHealth intervention for social support after miscarriage. In
that regard, I do not find the eHealth aspect in the title text “Towards leveraging eHealth for
social support” as sufficient for the findings in this article.
Title: The Miscarriage Circle of Care: Towards Leveraging Online Spaces for Social Support
Version: 2 Date: 04 Jul 2021
Reviewer:  Efrat Neter
Reviewer's report:
This is a fascinating study on care networks, employing mixed methods. The issue is important,
the literature is described adequately, and data is analyzed well, though the sample size is
relatively small. My concerns are minor and could be easily addressed.
I enjoyed reading the manuscript.
Pls remove words of causation from the manuscript (eg “affect”).
On the first paragraph of 1.3: Social support can also be instrumental/tangible; it’s not just
communication and attitude. This is conveyed later on but should be incorporated from the
beginning.
In the discussion, the authors should highlight the advantage of the methodology of the
Asynchronous Remote Community (ARC). They should also mention the small N.
Discussion should include comparison to literature on social support during pregnancy and
miscarriage.
Minor:
The first referred Table in the text is Table 3. Pls correct.
Sentences do not start with a number (as in “57% of participants…”).
Title: Challenges of and possible solutions for living with endometriosis: a qualitative study
Version: 1 Date: 04 Nov 2021
Reviewer's report:
thank you to giving me the chance to review this interesting qualitative study on challenges of
and possible solutions for living with endometriosis.
Despite good overall merit I have some minor issues:
- please add as limitation the lack of surgical confirmation of endometriosis and the low sample
size;
- please discuss about different types of endometriosis (superficial, deep, ovarian ones) and their
different clinical implications; please provide specific  data; otherwise, also discuss about the
chance to have endometriotic implants also outside the pelvis (i.e. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/
j.jmig.2012.03.005);
- please discuss about sexual complaints and their implications on living with endometriosis (i.e.
PMID: 26668848); please add this issue as a limitation of your study;
- please discuss about different potential surgical modalities and their different surgical
risk in terms of surgical morbidity (i.e. 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.02.122; DOI: 10.1016/
j.ajog.2021.06.102; DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.13959); please add this as a limitation of your study
Title: Challenges of and possible solutions for living with endometriosis: a qualitative study
Version: 1 Date: 05 Dec 2021
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal. In my honest
opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Nevertheless, authors
should clarify some points and improve the discussion. Authors should consider the following
recommendations:
- Manuscript should be further revised in order to correct some typos and improve style.
- What do you mean by "medically confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis"? US? NMR? Have
you noticed any differences in the worsening quality of life in patients with DIE?
- Have none of your patients undergone surgery? Did any patient get pregnant? Line 76 is missing
the reference on infertility. Patients with endometriosis have a worse reproductive outcome (read
and cite PMID: 34623489)
Line 85, some papers have addressed the problems of medical and surgical interventions to
improve the quality of life (read and cite doi: 10.1186/s10397-021-01096-5).
Why didn't you use validated questionnaires during the phone calls to measure HrQoL
objectively? (SF-36 ?, EHP 30? Etc)
How many of the patients answered each of your questions in the negative?
Have you noticed any differences based on the type of medical hormone therapy the patients
are taking? (Progestins? COCs? GnRH-a?)
The figures should be better explained and made more readable.
Title: The Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 on HIV and AIDS Control Efforts among Female
Sex Workers in Indonesia
Version: 3 Date: 27 Mar 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you very much for this opportunity to revise the manuscript titled " The Short-Term
Impact of COVID-19 on Female Sex Worker HIV and AIDS Control Efforts in Indonesia" that
was submitted to BMC Women's Health
The content of this manuscript does not meet the standards of rigor required by the journal to
be considered for publication.
The following major issues were identified in this manuscript
- Method of selection is not well documented and there is risk of bias.
- There are many more important factors that the study did not mentioned as they can affect
the results
-  You need to define aim and method appropriately in the text and explain explicitly valid
methods with sufficient details.
- You need to compare with previous and other studies for comparison as the discussion would
benefit from detailed explanation.
- Data sources and would they extract the data is not well documented.
- Sample size calculation is needed before undergoing this study.
- There is a high risk of heterogeneity of the study variables and population.
- Recall bias might be another limitation for the study and may be a challenge for the results
- many unstudied factors are confounding factors and are not present in your research
- Introduction and discussion are not well constructed and need to cite recent literature.
- The results and conclusion are not adequate and need to support the data and aim of the study
- the research question is not clear and not answered by the data presented in manuscript with
in-adequate study design not explained in adequate details.
- the method has several issues that cannot be overcome based on the review
- Statistical method is without necessary details to allow replicability of the work, you need to
explain the statistical method in further details. You need to use other statistical tests to support
the study findings or to disprove them.
- less contemporary information and detailed association with the COVID-19 pandemic during
the current wave with less details about other factors which are lacking.
Title: The Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 on HIV and AIDS Control Efforts among Female
Sex Workers in Indonesia
Version: 3 Date: 22 Apr 2021
Reviewer:  Hashim Talib Hashim
Reviewer's report:
After reading your paper “ The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Female Sex Worker HIV
and AIDS Control Efforts in Indonesia”, I felt enthusiastic about its content, it presents a great
work and contribution regarding covid-19. I strongly support your paper and hoping to be
accepted for publication.
Title: The Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 on HIV and AIDS Control Efforts among Female
Sex Workers in Indonesia
Version: 3 Date: 10 May 2021
Reviewer's report:
This is a well-presented descriptive study that examines the potential impact that the COVID-19
pandemic has had on essential HIV services in Indonesia with a focus on female sex workers.
The authors draw sensible conclusions from their data and provide evidence for the positive
impact of community-based HIV services. I have a few suggestions and points of clarification
that may help to improve the manuscript.
The authors on several occasions interchange between COVID and COVID-19 and for
consistency I would recommend using COVID-19 exclusively.
Lines 135-136 if publicly available it would be beneficial to cite the district level surveillance
sources and websites used. And to include the dates up to which the data was extracted.
Line 154 needs amending – double use of “being”
Figure 1 – to this reviewer this it would be clearer to understand the district level trends if figure
one was broken into multiple panels for each district with months on the x-axis and infection
rates on the y-axis as the current image is difficult to digest.
Figure 2 – it would be beneficial to provide a more informative figure legend to this image.
Including defining the terms used in each plot.
Line 211 – 212 – the greater decline in the three commercial sex activity indications for non-
Localization areas is an interesting result. Do the authors have any insights into why this might
be the case? Is there some interaction with the districts in which these areas fall for example?
Figure 3 – the formatting on these figures needs to be streamlined, the x-axis labels are difficult
to understand s1-2019 and s2-2019 are not defined explicitly it is left to the reader to interpret
this from the main text. It might also be beneficial to present the raw numbers from each plot in
a table rather than a graph as combing the raw data on plots doesn’t provide any further benefit
to understanding the trends in the data presented. Those important data points are picked out in
the text by the authors and is therefore not required on the figure.
Line 238 – what is the “best case outcome” ? does this refer to the Smallest % reduction column
in the table? Please clarify.
Figure 4 – figure title wording is not clear.
Lines 276 – 277 -  I would recommend adding in something along the lines of “our results” or
“current data analysed in this study show that COVID-19 has…”. As it currently reads, I expect
a reference to back up the statement when in fact it refers to the authors work.
Overall, to this reviewer figures are not clear enough and often confusing to view. In their current
format it is difficult to assess the trends that the authors are describing in the main text and I
would advise the authors to review all figures carefully.
Title: Comparing the effects of text messaging and mobile social networking on physical activity
and anthropometric indices of middle-aged women: A randomized controlled trial
Version: 3 Date: 11 Aug 2021
Reviewer's report:
The study looks very interesting and apt for the present scenario when all the work has been
shifted to the "online mode".
Some revision needs to be done, which are as follows:
KEYWORDS:
In this the word "Mobile" may be added with social networking word.
METHODS:
Somewhere it may be explained that text message was also sent on mobiles
Measurement- The source of anthropometric measurements may be given, to have a clear
understanding of how the measurements were taken by the researcher.
Intervention- It is mentioned that the participants of the study were keeping a record of their
physical activity in a journal. So were they given any small training on how to keep a record of
their physical activity and how to identify,  that they have to record a particular physical activity.
Another point which needs to be clarified in this section is, was the anthropometric
measurements after 4, 8 and 12 weeks during the intervention was also taken by a trained
Midwife.
Title: Comparing the effects of text messaging and mobile social networking on physical activity
and anthropometric indices of middle-aged women: A randomized controlled trial
Version: 3 Date: 10 Oct 2021
Reviewer:  Sayeed Unisa
Reviewer's report:
Text messages are used for commercial purposes, whereas social media messages are for
personal use. Now people are much inclined to see the social group posting rather than text.
Hence, the authors need to justify the need of using these two methods to examine the effect.
Moreover, it is not clear from the study whether messages in social media were given separately
to individuals or in the group. If the posts were delivered in the group, there is a chance of
interaction of group members.  It may also generate a positive impact on the members' health
due to their interaction among themselves. Authors may justify that there is no interaction effect
in this study.
It is found in the study that women are selected from the menopausal counselling and health
centre. Hence, they may also be getting information from the counselling or health centres apart
from messages.
Studies may be possible with only one media also, but the amount of content and frequency of
content may differ in two groups. This will help policymakers decide about the frequency of
messages for the health improvement of the population, especially middle-aged women.
Title: Elagolix treatment in women with heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine
fibroid: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Version: 2 Date: 18 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
I found the study is both detailed and well-design and written. However, before I accept for
publishing, I have some recommendations that may improve the expression of the study.
1) Please indicate the objectives clearly at the end of the background section.
2) Please present all of the inclusion criteria under the title of "eligibility criteria".
3) Please write the discussion section under three main headings: Main findings, limitations,
conclusions.
Sincerely.
Title: Elagolix treatment in women with heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine
fibroid: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Version: 3 Date: 20 Dec 2021
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author,
I reviewed this revised manuscript and in my opinion, this meta-analysis, which sheds light on
the treatment of abnormal bleeding due to uterine fibroids, seems appropriate for publication in
this journal in this revised version.
Best regards.
Title: The Effect of Educational Intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on
Improving Physical and nutrition status of Obese and Overweight Women
Version: 2 Date: 23 Jun 2021
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author,
Please consider the following comments to improve your writing:
1) Nutritional activities is not a common term. I suggest replacing it with nutrition status in the
title.
2)  Significance level is not necessary in the abstract. Instead, you can include any standard
measures which have been used for data collection.
3) It isn't indeed to mention the age of the participants or absence of any difference between
groups at baseline in the results section of the abstract. The most important things here are any
differences between groups and within groups after the intervention.
4) Any changes in the contracts of the TPB also should be provided here.
5) Providing some information on the women's nutritional status and related problems is also
helpful for readers especially in the location of study (Iran) and how such interventions may
contribute to resolve such problems.
6) It seems irrational that the sample size be doubled just for increasing the accuracy of the study
when the sample size formula suggests half of this sample is adequate. So, in my view it is better
to reframe your method of sample size calculation.
7) Exclusion criteria means the criteria whereby the participants may be excluded when entering
the study, not any attrition after inclusion.
8) It is better the measures used for the constructs of the theory be explained for each construct
individually and are separated from demographics. Also, further information on measures of
physical activity and nutrition status is needed, such as development process, psychometric
assessment and scoring system.
9) The intervention program should be explained based on the constructs of the theory. It means
which types of measures were used for improving any constructs and how?
10) Repeating the results of the tables in the text is not useful. Only important findings that have
not been presented in the table or those which are not tangible may be included in the text.
11) it is conventional that the most important findings of the study be restated in the first
paragraph of the discussion.
12) For any paradoxical results providing the likely justifications by the authors is also helpful
for discussion.
Overall, your manuscript needs a technical and grammatical review by a native English speaker
or at least an English teacher.
Title: The Effect of Educational Intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on
Improving Physical and nutrition status of Obese and Overweight Women
Version: 2 Date: 02 Jul 2021
Reviewer's report:
Abstract
1- Background needs editing (Line 1 to 3).
2- Method: Exactly what tool did you use? Explain briefly
3- The results need to be summarized.
4- Conclusion needs editing (line2).
5- Keyword: remove (TPB)
Background
1- Please write which age group is obese (line 15 to 16).
2- Please write which age or age range (line 17 to 18).
3- Need editing (line 21to23).
4- Write the structure of the theory briefly in the context of the problem statement. Page4(line
20-38) and page5 (line from 1to6).
Methods
1- Why did you choose women to study?
2- Remove "To determine each women’s BMI, her weight in kilograms was divided into her
height square (in meters)".
3- How did you measure the BMI of the elderly?
4- Please write the reliability and validity of the questionnaire in full.
5- Was the physical activity questionnaire standard? Please explain which questionnaire did you
use. Also nutrition questionnaire
6- Please refer to the intervention stage. For example, the first phase
7- Write the intervention plan in a table.
8- Remove " In one of the sessions, a 41-year-old woman who had lost weight through physical
activity and proper nutrition was invited and asked to talk about obesity and its problems".
9- Was this study done at the time of the Corona epidemic? How
10- You said the sampling was random, how did samples get in touch with friends and partners?
11- How did you teach physical activity and how did you measure it during the study? What
did physical activity involve?
12- Two follow-up sessions were held for the women one month and three months after the
educational intervention. How?
13- Why height was measured? In the second phase.
Results
1- Add test to tables 2 and 3.
Discussion
1- In the article, use the same word for nutrition (eating or nutrition).
2- Replace abbreviations inside the text.
Declarations
1- Write the code of the ethics committee.
Title: The Effect of Educational Intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on
Improving Physical and nutrition status of Obese and Overweight Women
Version: 3 Date: 10 Oct 2021
Reviewer's report:
Abstract
Line 8 and 15 and 24 should be edited.
Background
Remove the theoretical structure sequence on page 4 and merge the contents.
Methods
1. The answer to the third comment was not found.
2. the response of the eleventh comment should be added to methodology and mention how long
the samples did the exercise.
3. why did none of the participants withdraw from the program.
Results
1. add the number to the table on page 6 and edit the contents of the table.
2. Groups are compared in table 2 but their statistical test is not mentioned.
3.    Change the title of the fifth column of tables 2 and 3 to the p-value.
Title: Trends of central obesity and associations with nutrients intake and daily behaviors among
women of childbearing age in China
Version: 0 Date: 14 Jun 2021
Reviewer's report:
This study intended to examine the relationship between central obesity and nutrient intake and
other energy balance behaviors using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. The topic is
interesting. However, several issues need to be addressed. My comments follow:
1. Introduction. Current research on central obesity among women in China should be reviewed
and summarized, and related research gaps should be clearly explained, and how this study
contributes to the literature needs to be justified.
2. Methods. First, the description of CHNS data needs to be shortened. This is secondary
data analysis, you could just reference the details to the data source. Instead, you need clearly
describe how you prepared data for analysis, eg. any observations excluded? If so, what were the
exclusion criteria? How many were excluded? Will the exclusion influence analyses? What’s the
sample size for the original data and what’s the sample size for the final analytical sample? What
about missing values? How missing values were handled? Deleted or imputations were used?
It would be desired that a conceptual framework is introduced in the methods part, which could
help explain why covariates such as screen behavior, homework, and other sedentary behavior,
sleep duration, age, residence location, education level, income, currently smoking, alcohol
drinking were included in the regression models.
3. Results. Since CHNS is a longitudinal dataset, table 1 needs to be modified to report either the
characteristics of the same participants across years (some participants may have three waves
of data, some had two waves, some had only one; this is related to year and age effects) and
characteristics of different participants across years (this is related to cohort effects).
Also, as the authors mentioned, “all participants were grouped into two age groups as 15-34 age
group and 35-44 age group”. It is natural to expect that the analyses could be stratified for these
two age groups. There could be age differences.
Title: Trends of central obesity and associations with nutrients intake and daily behaviors among
women of childbearing age in China
Version: 0 Date: 27 Jul 2021
Reviewer's report:
It is suggested to review the English of the article.
The objective of the first three lines is not the same as indicated in the introduction. It is suggested
to standardize.
Lines 75-78, the selection criteria of the participants for inclusion in the study are not clear. It
is suggested to describe in more detail
Line 70, it is suggested to describe the stages of the study
Lines 189-193, I would take them out of the discussion, it should be part of the introduction.
Title: Cardiometabolic health profile of young girls with aesthetic professions
Version: 1 Date: 19 Sep 2021
Reviewer's report:
# Review
In the present study the Authors aimed to identify whether there is a relationship between
physical fitness levels, cardiometabolic health markers, mental health and dietary habits in non-
conventional professions.
Although small sample size, the manuscript is well written and the data justify the conclusions.
However, some issues need correction.
- Line 245: Instead of „Fridewald“, it should be corrected so as to be „Friedewald“. Also the
related reference 34, should be written correctly.
- Line 252: „For the inflammatory profile, the value of <1mg/L was used (32)”. CRP should
be added.
- Line 281: “The significance level adopted was #<0.05”. Did the Authors mean “p<0.05”?
- In Figure 2C, instead of „CT“, it should be written „TC“.
- Line 331: the following sentence is incomplete: „No statistically significant differences were
found between groups (p>0.05)”.
- Line 429: the following abbreviation needs explanation „Mets”.
- Concerning the increased cardiometabolic risk in obese adolescent population mentioned in
Discussion section, the Authors should extend their discussion (i.e. increase inflammation level
in obese state). Hence, they are referred to the following articles:  doi: 10.1515/jomb-2016-0005
and doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202010_23426
- What are the limitations of the study?