JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Association between Serum Vitamin C and HPV Infection in American Women: A cross-
sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 07 Aug 2022
Reviewer:  Ayush Anand
Reviewer's report:
Journal: BMC Women’s Health
Title: Association between Serum Vitamin C and HPV Infection in American Women: A cross-
sectional study
Dear Authors,
I have reviewed the manuscript and would like to suggest the following changes in a section-
wise manner.
1. Introduction
The authors have stated that “According to calculation, the current vaccine has the potential to
eliminate 90% of cases of cervical cancer and 50% of cancers that occur at sites associated with
HPV infection, worldwide.” Please provide the reference for this statement.
The authors have stated that they did not find any study regarding association between vitamin C
and HPV infection. This is not the case. Please go through the following article and its references
to find more studies, and try to identify the gaps in these studies.
Barchitta M, Maugeri A, La Mastra C, Rosa MC, Favara G, Lio RMS, Agodi A. Dietary
Antioxidant Intake and Human Papillomavirus Infection: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional
Study in Italy. Nutrients. 2020 May 12;12(5):1384. doi: 10.3390/nu12051384. PMID:
32408636; PMCID: PMC7284420.
I suggest the authors to follow the STROBE guidelines and highlight the rationale of this study.
2. Methodology
The methodology is sound.
3. Results
Result section is well written and tables and figures are of good quality.
4. Discussion
I suggest the authors to compare the present data with similar studies as suggested in the
introduction section. Also, please add one paragraph stating the future implications of this
research.
Title: Magnitude of unmet need for family planning and its predictors among reproductive age
women in high fertility regions of Ethiopia: Evidence from Ethiopian Demographic and Health
Survey
Version: 1 Date: 09 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
General Comments
The manuscript is well written, adequately reported, and scientifically sound. However, I have
some comments and suggestions.
1. Unmet need for FP of 46.95% is unexpectedly very high as compared to the national average
(22%) and the United Nations sphere standard (25%). Family planning is among the maternal
health services freely provided at the primary health care units in Ethiopia. Here I recommend
using the modified Westoff Model, 2012 algorithm to come up with the prevalence of an unmet
need for FP. Otherwise; it needs strong justification despite governmental interventions and
initiatives to reduce the magnitude. If possible, check the family planning users in each region
by that time which complements not using contraceptives. Is it decreasing or increasing from
EHDS 2011, over the past 5 years?
2. Editorial: check the edition problems throughout the text
a. Background paragraph 2, line #1 ‘family services’… I think it should be ‘family planning
services
b. Background paragraph 2, line #7 ‘fertility rats’… I think it should be ‘fertility rates’
3. Methods:
a. Study design: Paragraph 1, line #5 ‘South Nation Nationalities and People Region’ …I think
it should be ‘South Nation, Nationalities and Peoples Region’ by adding a comma after Nation
and ‘s’ to people.
b. Concerning inclusion and exclusion criteria, do the reproductive age women were those
currently married only or include those in the union having a sexual partner?  Check once  the
Westoff Model, 2012
c. Data source: Who gave you online permission? Include it also here
4. Results:
a. Be consistent in writing the results in narrative with figures in the tables.
E.g. Percentages of multipara in Table 2 (84.02%) and the percentage of multipara in paragraph
2, in line #1 of the result part (63.9%) are different.
5. Discussion:
a. Paragraph 2, line #3 ‘Ethiopian’…It should be ‘Ethiopia’ since your intention is to compare
the prevalence of unmet needs for FP across geographical regions.
Title: Magnitude of unmet need for family planning and its predictors among reproductive age
women in high fertility regions of Ethiopia: Evidence from Ethiopian Demographic and Health
Survey
Version: 1 Date: 06 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
1. Generally, the grammar needs to be worked.
2.  Some spellings are not correct.
3. Some definitions were vague like access to TV/radio was if a respondent had the item
4. I feel the rural/urban distribution was not necessary as only one kebele was urban
5. The process of selecting the women, later on the married women was not so clear especially
that this was selected at the household level
Title: Magnitude of unmet need for family planning and its predictors among reproductive age
women in high fertility regions of Ethiopia: Evidence from Ethiopian Demographic and Health
Survey
Version: 3 Date: 24 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
I am very grateful for your responses and scientific work. All my concerns raised so far had been
addressed and well explained in this revised version of the manuscript to improve the quality
and readability of your scholarly work.  Appreciating your effort and reflections, I recommend
your study be published in a peer-reviewed and high-quality journal, BMC Women's Health.
Title: Magnitude of unmet need for family planning and its predictors among reproductive age
women in high fertility regions of Ethiopia: Evidence from Ethiopian Demographic and Health
Survey
Version: 3 Date: 31 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
The response is not satisfactory. Look at Figure 7.10 in  the 2016 Ethiopia DHSand compare with
figure 2 from your paper. Both are using the same data, however, the results are very different.
In the DHS, Oromiya had an unmet need for family planning of 29 while in your paper, it was at
46.28. Similarly, the unmet for family planning in Afar and Somali were 17 and 13, respectively
based on the 2016 DHS while your paper shows 87.35 for Somalia and 56.42 for Afar.
I feel there is something that may not have been done right when doing the analysis.
If you used Stata, you can share your do-file so that I have a look.
Title: Attitude and intention of migrant populations in the Netherlands regarding Female Genital
Mutilation/Cutting
Version: 1 Date: 15 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Abstract
No themes presented in your abstract
Change daughter to daughters
How are you comparing the data
Plain English Summary - is almost similar to abstract just headings of the abstract removed.  It
does not come out as a plain English summary. Please revisit this.
Background
In the Netherlands, all children under 19 years are invited regularly for preventive consultations
with Youth Healthcare professionals, who are also required to identify and assess the risk of
FGM/C among migrant populations. (Do they do vaginal examination here?)
Study Design
The data saturation needs to be made clear, for example, how was it determined
Look at the fact that you conducted FG and added Individual Interviews
How and where did you access the migrants, did you interview all the migrants?
Remove "we" and replace with researchers
You should indicate how are you now able to present from Dutch to English now, who was
the translator
Indicate when was the data collected
how long did each FG or Individual Interview take?
Data analysis
How did you ensure the anonymity of the participants, and maintain rigor?
You mention the framework, and thematic analysis you need to describe how both were used.
It is difficult to see this in your analysis.
Data analysis must be described and applied
Somewhere you are mentioning the use of the coreq, please let it reflect and apply it
hereConsolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ)
Trustworthiness/Rigor
Please present this data in terms of credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability.
Title: The relationship between aggressive behaviors of preschool children and the violence
against Iranian women in the COVID-19 pandemic
Version: 1 Date: 25 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
1. The draft needs significant improvement in language and correction of grammatical mistakes.
2. How  was the sampling frame selected.
3. Sampling method was not properly define.
4. The reasons of selecting the target area was not defined.
5. The literature review has been explained in a way where the association between violence
against women and aggressive behaviour of children has been defined. However in analysis, the
two variables has been treated separately by making their separate model which is not in line
with the literature review and discussion.
6. The background of the study is weak.
Title: The relationship between aggressive behaviors of preschool children and the violence
against Iranian women in the COVID-19 pandemic
Version: 1 Date: 04 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
-The importance and necessity of the study has not been well demonstrated.
-Contrary to the authors, there are studies in this field entiteld "Examining intersections between
violence against women and violence against children: perspectives of adolescents and adults
in displaced Colombian communities" and "Impact of exposure to intimate partner violence on
children's behavior" , or other researches.
-Statistics are not available in this regard.
- How has the COVID-19 Pandemic affected the level of violence?
- The use of convenience sampling technique, makes it difficult to generalize the results.
- Questionnaires have been used many times in various studies and do not have an innovative
data collection framework.
-The authors have calculated only a simple statistical correlation which is not statistically
sufficient.
- There is poor language quality throughout the manuscript.
Title: The relationship between aggressive behaviors of preschool children and the violence
against Iranian women in the COVID-19 pandemic
Version: 3 Date: 27 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you to the authors for making the requested revisions to their manuscript. However, there
are still grammatical and typo errors within several places in the manuscript. Can the authors hire
a professional copyeditor who is skilled  in English language? This is crucial because scientific
publication should often be written in formal English language.
Please, the authors should consider writing the probability sign "p" using small letter throughout
the manuscript. And all statistical terms should be italicized as mentioned in the previous review.
In the limitations of the study, the following should be re-written to enhance clarity to readers,
also bearing in mind that more than one researcher conducted this study - "One of the limitations
of this study is the wide-ranging effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on all aspects of human life,
which could have affected the study, which was beyond the scope of the researcher."
In the reference section, the journal's name should be italicized for all journal references in
accordance with APA format.
Overall, I believe that the authors have conducted an interesting study, however, much work
needs to be done to correct the grammatical and typo errors to enhance the clarity of your study
to readers.
Goodluck!
Title: The relationship between aggressive behaviors of preschool children and the violence
against Iranian women in the COVID-19 pandemic
Version: 3 Date: 28 Jun 2022
Reviewer:  Silvana Mula
Reviewer's report:
The authors fully addressed all my comments.
I only have a further minor comment:
- "Given that violence against mothers with preschool children can have very destructive
physical and psychological effects on these children, these effects can make people prone
to delinquency or various physical and mental diseases in adulthood". This statement needs
theoretical reference(s).
Title: The relationship between aggressive behaviors of preschool children and the violence
against Iranian women in the COVID-19 pandemic
Version: 5 Date: 20 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
Congratulations  to the authors for the revision! To strengthen your literature review, it is
suggested that this last sentence in the first paragraph of the introduction - "Domestic violence
can have devastating consequences for children, including aggressive behaviors [3, 7]." - is also
supported with the following recent study:
Asagba, R. B., Noibi, O. W., & Ogueji, I. A. (2022). Gender Differences in Children’s Exposure
to Domestic Violence in Nigeria. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 15(2), 423-426. https://
doi.org/10.1007/s40653-021-00386-6
Title: Effect of Educational Intervention Based on Health Belief Model on Promoting Preventive
Behaviours of Urinary Tract Infections in Mothers with Children under 6-Years of Age
Version: 3 Date: 20 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
Many thanks for giving me the opportunity to review the manuscript entitled "Effect of
Educational Intervention Based on Health Belief Model on Promoting Preventive Behaviours
of Urinary Tract infections in Mothers with Children under 6-Years of Age".
This study was aimed to determine the effect of educational intervention based on health belief
model on promoting preventive behaviours of Urinary Tract infections in Mothers
The manuscript also requires a thorough English language revision.
Some specific comments for the authors to consider are as follows:
Introduction:
1. The rationale for this study is weak and fails to discuss why HBM was tested, the benefit of
using HBM in patients with this condition.
2. Methods: In the methods, please inclusion criteria requires explanations.
3. please add graph for sampling methods.
4. discussion:  Most importantly, the discussion section currently is unclear and lacks strength
and limitations, as the findings are not well discussed (in support/ against) using the existing
evidence. such as "Factors related to treatment adherence behaviors among old-age hemodialysis
patients in Hamadan, Iran: the application of the extended theory of planned behavior during
Covid-19 pandemic".
5.Finally, it remains unclear on how this study add to the existing knowledge and there remains
a big gap in understanding future research and policy implications, and strengths and limitations
from the study findings.
Title: Correlation study on serum miR-222-3p and glucose and lipid metabolism in patients with
polycystic ovary syndrome
Version: 2 Date: 30 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
Recommendation: In my opinion, the above-mentioned manuscript has novel findings however
needs major revision.
My specific comments are as follows:
The manuscript needs to edit by a native English language speaker.
In the representation of results in the abstract section, it is suggested to use statistical values for
instance p-value and the correlation value and etc.
It is suggested to represent the static findings of “The area under the curve” for assessing
diagnosis efficiency in the abstract.
What is the main gap of knowledge in this study?
It is suggested to add the sociodemographic characteristics of participants in one table.
I am confused regarding the main goal of this study: assessing the correlation between serum
miR-222-3p and glucose and lipid metabolism or using miR-222-3p as diagnostic criteria. What
is the primary and secondary outcome of this study?
In this study, the sample was estimated based on which formula.
The first paragraph of the discussion should represent the main findings of the study.
Paragraph 2 of discussion is not necessary.
It is required to organize a discussion section (each main finding would be discussed in one
paragraph). Some paragraphs in the discussion section are too long.
Title: Correlation study on serum miR-222-3p and glucose and lipid metabolism in patients with
polycystic ovary syndrome
Version: 2 Date: 25 May 2022
Reviewer:  Pawe# Madej
Reviewer's report:
Interesting, future-oriented work, especially in the field of prediction of early diagnosis of
metabolic complications in PCO syndrome. In the future, I propose to divide the study into
phenotypic groups according to the Rotterdam criteria to make the results more readable.
Title: Effect of pelvic floor muscle training using mobile health applications for stress urinary
incontinence in women: a systematic review.
Version: 0 Date: 21 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this important work exploring mHealth interventions
to support 1) the management of SUI 2) to support the adherence of PFMT such to improve
symptoms related to SUI.
Please see the attached document with comments in track changes.  Although the methods are
clear and follow the gold standard approach for systematic reviews, there are several issues that
require attention.
First, please use consistent language and associated abbreviations through the paper.   I have
noted several on the document, but attention needs to be paid to this issue.
Second, ensure a consistent academia writing style is use.  In many places conversational writing
is used.  I have noted several examples in the document.
Third, ensure you are using the most up to date evidence.  Instead of using the 6th edition or the
ICI, use the 7th.   When referring to PFMT being recommendation as the most effective first
line conservative care strategies, cite the most recent 2021 NICE guideline for example.
Fourth, the discussion section needs work.  It is not clear what the discussion points are.  You
should  have 1-2 clear discussion points pertaining to the first objective of your study and 1-2
related to the second objective of your study.  The discusion should be an explanation or "so
what" of the results.  There is too much repetition of the results and details of the studies that
should not be in this section.  In fact there is almost no relevant discussion the relates to the
study purposes.   Perhaps you need another table to capture some of the information about the
studies so you don't have those details in the text of the discussion.  In addition, have a separate
heading for limitations.
Finall the conclusion needs to be reviewed following the discussion.   It currently reads as a
single run on sentence which is not appropriate.
Title: Effect of pelvic floor muscle training using mobile health applications for stress urinary
incontinence in women: a systematic review.
Version: 3 Date: 03 Aug 2022
Reviewer's report:
I thank the authors for the time and diligence put into the revision of this manuscript.  It is evident
they considered the feedback from all three reviewers carefully.
There are several comments and suggestions I have made focusing on the introduction and
discussion sections.   The aims are still not laid out clearly and some minor restructuring is
suggested as noted in the comments.
There are still several sections where writing lacks clarity and is conversational.  Lastly, some
inconsistencies wither terminology are still an issue.  For example, choose if you want to refer
to "app-based" or "mobile health technology" and stay consistent throughout the paper.
Title: Effect of pelvic floor muscle training using mobile health applications for stress urinary
incontinence in women: a systematic review.
Version: 4 Date: 17 Aug 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you to the authors for continuing to attend to the feedback I have provided.  The study
purpose(s) are now clear.   Overall the manuscript is now much stronger.
At this point just minor revisions to keep with academic writing principles and to continue
to consistently use acronyms where appreciate - namely:  mHealth Apps  (Mobile Health
Applications).
Please see my comments and track changes throughout  the manuscript to address these final
minor issues.
Title: Effect of pelvic floor muscle training using mobile health applications for stress urinary
incontinence in women: a systematic review.
Version: 5 Date: 29 Aug 2022
Reviewer's report:
There are still many time where inconsistent terminology is used through the manuscript -
particular the discussion through to the conclusion.  Please refer to my comments in the
appending manuscript.  I advise the authors to carefully go through the manuscript line by line  or
use the "word find" function to endure consistent terminology throughout prior to resubmitting.
Title: Assessment of Domestic Violence and its associated factors among ever- married
reproductive-age Women in Cameroon: A cross-sectional survey
Version: 1 Date: 18 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
Comments to the authors
The manuscript looks into the prevalence of and factors associated with domestic violence. It
adds to the database and research on an important topic. However, there are a few concerns.
First of all, the manuscript needs a standard language revision and editing as there are language
concerns throughout the manuscript. Phrases such as Plus to the…., based on the output….,
established on this study…., etc., can be omitted.
Abstract:
Authors write - ‘A community-based cross-sectional demographic and health survey was
conducted in Cameroon in 2018. The participants were chosen using a two-stage stratified
selection procedure.’
Authors can directly write that the data were analyzed from demographic and health surveys
conducted in Cameroon in 2018.
Results: Table 2: In the logistic regression, the authors have added an asterisk for women who are
currently working. Any reason for that? However, we could not find any discussion regarding
this. Moreover, the OR is not significant and therefore may not necessarily need a discussion.
Line no. 114, the authors write ‘The study's outcome variable was the assessment of Domestic
violence among married reproductive-age women in Cameroon’
This can be rephrased as the outcome variable was the experience of (or, presence or absence
of) domestic violence among……
Line no. 169: The authors write ‘The age of the mother increased by a year’
This statement looks out of context. Please look into this.
Discussion:
Line no. 185: the authors write ‘Furthermore, a Zimbabwean study assesses domestic abuse that
occurred during the women's lifespan.’
Please discuss this in the context of your study.
Lines 194-196: ‘She went on to argue that education is a tool that improves people's thinking and
their judgment of what is right and wrong, which encourages women to fight violence. She went
on to say that educated women are more suited to tolerate such abuse and so limit its occurrence’.
Statements such as this should be written in a more scientific way. Authors may rephrase this.
Further, the authors conclude that there were region-wide differences. It would be good to
discuss this more and what could be the possible factors for these region-wide differences by
discussing further in the context of the geographic regions studied and where the risk was more.
Overall, the discussion can be refined further and should be written with more scientific rigor.