Reviewer's report
Title:Rural Women are more likely to Use Long Acting Contraceptive in Tigray
Region: A Comparative Community Based Study
Version:3Date:26 December 2014
Reviewer: Delayehu Bekele Mamo
Reviewer's report:
Reviewers report
Title: Rural Women are more likely to Use Long Acting Contraceptive in Tigray
Region: A Comparative Community Based Study
Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper. The paper tries to identify and
assess factors affecting the utilization of long acting contraceptive in urban and
rural setting and the research question is well described. The study is important
as one of the strategies of the federal ministry of heath of Ethiopia to increase the
contraceptive prevalence rate is increasing the utilization of long acting family
planning methods. Understanding factors determining the utilization of the long
acting family planning methods is important for this endeavor.
The methods utilized are well described. There are several typos and some
inappropriate language use which needs attention. I have tried to give some
specific comments below but I would like to say the whole write up needs to be
gone over once. After that I believe it is a worth paper to be published.
• Minor Essential Revisions
Back ground
# There is a redundancy of concept between the second and third statement. It is
better to merge and put them in a single statement.
# In the third paragraph line 89 please replace the word “revealed” by
“conducted” or “done”.
Results
Socio-demographic characteristics
# First paragraph, first statement, line 154, please delete the word “were”
Practice of long acting contraceptives
# There are some areas which have non-coherent ideas and needs revision. The
last paragraph of the subtopic needs to be rewritten. The verbatim taken from the
FGD as a supportive statement for the different side effects of long acting
contraceptives talks about a totally different issue i.e. religion.
Discussion
# In the fifth paragraph the 2nd and 3rd statement should be merged.
# Line 343 has typo. “decarese” should be changed to decrease
• Major Compulsory Revisions
# There is a stamen in the result section of the abstract which is read as
“Implants were the commmonest type of 46 contraceptive use in both districts
75(75%) respodents in Wukro town and 184(94%) in 47 Kilteawelao district.”
The statement has several typos and the STATMENT IS WRONG AND
DOESN’T AGREE WITH THE RESULT SECTION? IS IT TO SAY AWARNESS
TO THE METHODS?
# The discussion part in general should be made more focused, revised and
shortened. Most of the contents of the second paragraph are beyond the scope
of the study. I don’t think it is necessary to further discuss mean age of marriage
and differences in educational status between the urban and rural population.
# There is no table which shows the utilization of the different contraceptive
methods. I believe it would be prudent to add that table, probably instead of table
3.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests' below