JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) in the Malay language- Translation and Validation in a
Multiethnic Population of Selangor, Malaysia
Version: 4 Date: 21 Jul 2022
Reviewer:  Abdullah Alamer
Reviewer's report:
It is nice to see that the authors worked hard to address the issues raised which appear to
improve the quality of the work. I am satisfied with the revision but one aspect requires important
revision.
The authors explained that previous studies have "encountered straddling" with the factor
structure of MRS, thus the scale validity remains unresolved. Your paper can provide an
important improvement to the field if it applies ESEM which solves many problems CFA and
EFA face.
ESEM is simply an EFA being executed through SEM. Simply put, if your EFA has fit indices
then you are reporting ESEM. It was good to see that you indicated that you used HASP to get
your results. JASP can do the basic ESEM indeed. Steps: 1. select EFA and enter all variables,
2. change "minimum residual" to "maximum likelihood" under the "Estimation method" tap,
and 3. under Output options select "Additional fit indices".  Now, you can force the solution to
extract a particular number of factors from the "Manual" option (depending on the theory you
can do that). What you have now is ESEM! Remember to report the x^2, df, p, RMSEA and
TLI.  I expect that your results will outperform CFA in fit indices (your current RMSEA is .12
which is poor)  and reduced factor correlations  (you have a correlation of .84 which cannot
support discriminant validity).
I am looking forward to reading your revision.
Please consult these sources to help and guide you when writing about ESEM.
Alamer, A. (2022). Exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) and bifactor ESEM for
construct validation purposes: Guidelines and applied example. Research Methods in Applied
Linguistics, 1(1) 100005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2022.100005
Alamer, A., & Marsh, H. (2022). Exploratory structural equation modeling in second language
research: An applied example using the dualistic model of passion. Studies in Second Language
Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000863
Marsh, H., Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T., Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Morin, A., & Trautwein, U.
(2009). Exploratory structural equation modeling, integrating CFA and EFA: Application to
students’ evaluations of university teaching. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary
Journal, 16(3), 439–476. 10.1080/10705510903008220.
Shao, K., Elahi Shirvan, M., & Alamer, A. (2022). How accurate is your correlation? Different
methods derive different results and different interpretations. Frontiers in Psychology. 13,
901412. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901412
Title: Resilience, pain, and health-related quality of life in gynecological patients undergoing
surgery for benign and malignant conditions: a 12-month follow-up study
Version: 1 Date: 29 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
Excellent analysis of psychological factors in surgical patients This data supports that
improvement in mental health status perioperatively influence the outcomes, and especially
patient reported outcomes.
Results
• Figure 1 should be in the results
• Line 144: The internal consistency in our sample was excellent (Cronbach’s alpha=0.933). I
believe this should be part of the results and here it should only be stated like you do in the
statistics section. Same in line 174
• Line 179: We recruited consecutive elective gynecologic surgery patients  …. This paragraph
should be after line 95 where the inclusion and exclusion criteria are detailed.
Discussion
• Line 389: excellent conclusion that is the aim of the research. Once it is proved that the
psychological factors influence the outcomes, improvement on psychological and mental health
must be achieved, not only in gyn surgery but also in every specialty.
• Line 442: it is true that radiotherapy in particular can worsen patients’ symptoms and therefore
their quality of life. A subgroup of patients with neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy could be done
or be the subject of future research.
Conclusion
• 469: Patients with low resilience should be identified during preoperative evaluation, and health
care professionals should give these patients psychological support to enhance their resilience.
I would recommend including this conclusion in the abstract, as it is the end improvement goal
after analyzing all the variables.
Title: Resilience, pain, and health-related quality of life in gynecological patients undergoing
surgery for benign and malignant conditions: a 12-month follow-up study
Version: 1 Date: 01 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Overall this is a very interesting investigation. The manuscript is well-written and assembles a
large amount of data into an easily understandable presentation. If possible, I would suggest the
authors further consider addressing the following:
1. The choice to exclude  patients with mental health diagnoses.
2. How confident are the authors in the population studied that there are not undiagnosed mental
health diseases confounding results.
3. Why does the population with malignant disease demonstrate ongoing decreases in QOL,
assuming that the population contains individuals "cured," still under treatment, and those failing
treatment. Could any subanalyses done within the malignant population?
4. What pain management strategies were used? Were they similar across the entire population?
Were there significant differences (such as multimodal approaches vs. not) that might confound
the analyses?
Overall very nicely done.
Title: Resilience, pain, and health-related quality of life in gynecological patients undergoing
surgery for benign and malignant conditions: a 12-month follow-up study
Version: 1 Date: 10 Jun 2022
Reviewer:  Tullio Golia D'augè
Reviewer's report:
The manuscript is  original and well written and I read it with great interest. Here I provide some
minor recommendations which I suggest follow to improve its quality.
- Results deserve some review and modifications in order to insert some concepts in more
appropriate paragraphs (see the part about enrolled patients that should be included in materials
and methods or figure 1 about the flow chart that should be inserted in the conclusions)
- Please consider also possible insights from these articles PMID: 35343352
The work is interesting and provides a panoramic view on a topic still poorly defined.
I think it could be of interest for the readers of BMC Women's Health, and, in my opinion, it
deserves the priority to be published after minor revisions.
Title: Resilience, pain, and health-related quality of life in gynecological patients undergoing
surgery for benign and malignant conditions: a 12-month follow-up study
Version: 2 Date: 08 Jul 2022
Reviewer:  Tullio Golia D'augè
Reviewer's report:
Authors presented a study to investigate the health-related quality of life in gynecological
patients undergoing surgery for benign and malignant conditions.
The manuscript is really interesting, original and well written.
Materials and methods are clear, discussions adeguate and conclusions supported by results.
Overall it is a very well done work.
Title: Resilience, pain, and health-related quality of life in gynecological patients undergoing
surgery for benign and malignant conditions: a 12-month follow-up study
Version: 2 Date: 16 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for addressing my comments.
ABSTRACT
The same changes made in the manuscript should be in the abstract.
Methods section should not have number of patients, just say consecutive elective gynecologic
surgery patients   …
We enrolled 271 women who underwent gynecological surgery due to benign (n=190) and
malignant (n=81) diagnoses from the abstract should be in the abstract results section.
Title: The prevalence of menstrual disorders and premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls
living in North Borneo, Malaysia: A questionnaire-based study
Version: 1 Date: 10 Jun 2022
Reviewer:  Hafizuddin Awang
Reviewer's report:
Overall, it's a good topic to discuss.
There are some parts of the manuscript that need revision and refinement.
Line 26: Suggest to change to less controversial statement ie “less developed state”.
Line 83: May I know why specifically Ranau of all other districts?
Line 98: Honorarium given to respondents?
Line 108: Any published validation study of the Malay version questionnaire?
Line 116: Your study is purely descriptive. Hence, there is no role for chi square (which is used
to analyse the association between independent and dependent variables) and student’s t-test
(used to compare mean value between two independent groups). Moreover, there is no p-value
presented in all your tables. Kindly revise your statistical analysis.
Line 200: Based on this fact, rural girls should have lower prevalence of dysmenorrhea as
compared to urban girls. Even urbanization of the rural area happens, the prevalence in the urban
area should exceed the rural area.
Line 217: Good point! But perhaps author could elaborate on health seeking behaviour as well.
Line 226-232: Relate this finding with the developmental phase of adolescents psychosocially,
ie during mid adolescent, they tend to mingle more with their peers.
Line 234-238: Again, author may discuss about health seeking behaviour among adolescents.
And maybe author can discuss about poor competency of healthcare providers in engaging with
adolescents ie the importance of CRET (confidentiality, rapport, empathy, trust).
Reference: Suggest to use the latest references ie less than 5 years if possible.
Title: The prevalence of menstrual disorders and premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls
living in North Borneo, Malaysia: A questionnaire-based study
Version: 1 Date: 15 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear Authors,
your research is important, well-conducted, well-written and legibly described.
The only thing that comes to mind when I read this work is the fact that the title does not fully
reflect publication content. You describe not only The prevalence of menstrual disorders but
also the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Maybe it would be worth considering modifying
the publication title.
I would also add premenstrual syndrome to the keywords.
„Additionally, in this study, primary and secondary dysmenorrhea and participants'
socioeconomic status were not differentiated or recorded, respectively” –  The Authors are aware
of the limitations of their work. The actual prevalence of premenstrual symptoms is difficult to
establish due to the many factors that can determine it, including differences in access to medical
care, diagnostic criteria, methods used to identify and classify cases, symptom diversity, self-
medication, underlying diseases, local culture, failure to report such symptoms to the doctor,
and a lack of knowledge that  it can be treated. So it is difficult to find all the factors that lead
to premenstrual symptoms.
Title: The prevalence of menstrual disorders and premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls
living in North Borneo, Malaysia: A questionnaire-based study
Version: 4 Date: 10 Jul 2022
Reviewer:  Hafizuddin Awang
Reviewer's report:
The authors have responded and answered well to all my questions and inquiries.
The statistical analysis part has been substantially refined and suits the study well.
The discussion part has been refined and included with the latest references.
Title: The prevalence of menstrual disorders and premenstrual syndrome among adolescent girls
living in North Borneo, Malaysia: A questionnaire-based study
Version: 4 Date: 18 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
Most of the comments have been revised accordingly, but still have some part need revision.
1. Result: Table 1 & Table 2 still have missing data and all the figure we counted with the missing
data.  My suggestion please find statistician to solve this part. If the author familiar with SPSS,
can follow this instruction how to recode the new variable. For example, age breakdown variable
1st: Go to button transform and click Recode to New Variable
2nd: Select the variable Agebreakdown  and put in the column (string variable ->output variable).
3rd: Give new name like Agebreakdown_new in the column (output variable name) and click
button Change
4th: Click button Old and New Values
5th: Recode back old and new variable based on your data
as example if the variable age breakdown were categorised  1=14-15, 2=16-17,3=18-19, so in
the column old value and new value will be like this:
Old Value                              New Value
insert value  1                               1
insert value 2                               2
insert value 3                                3
System or                                System missing  (click)
using missing (click)
Button system missing will cater for the variable with missing data here
6th: Click button continue & ok
7th: The new variable Agebreakdown_new will be generated and will be in the last row in your
data.
8th: Run back the analysis and correct back all the figure in the manuscript.
This instruction of recode can be done for all other variables with the missing data.
Figure 2: Insert the title and make sure the figure is same as written in the paragraph (no decimal
point in the figure).
Title: Women’s experience and perspectives toward genital cosmetic surgery in Erbil city/Iraq:
A qualitative study
Version: 7 Date: 20 Jul 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you very much for the opportunity to review the manuscript.
I noticed important changes that contributed to a better understanding of the research.
However, I still miss some details, for example:
Table 1. Demographic characteristics of participants
I believe that education and paid work, family income would be important for us to better
visualize as participants.
Success to the authors
Title: Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS): Using transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) for
detecting, visualizing and monitoring the healing process.
Version: 2 Date: 06 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for your paper in which you studied a new utility of the 3D/4D transperineal
ultrasound. It is an interesting objective
Weaknesses are the retrospective nature, the reduced sample size and that it is a single center
study.
Overall: I would recommend proof-reading for English grammar. Special attention to verb tenses
and more scientifical laguage
Sections: Please read all the comments included in the original file
Title: Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS): Using transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) for
detecting, visualizing and monitoring the healing process.
Version: 2 Date: 07 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
I have read the article  titled Transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) of third-degree anal sphincter
injuries: A suitable method for examining the healing process.
I do  have some comments:
1. I am asking the authors to be more precise in terminology  considering incontinence: feacal
or fecal, gas, anal incontinence. The  term stool incontinence should be avoided.
2.  You cannot conclude  that TPUS is  suitable method for the detection from this study
3.  What is the point of the following  of the anal sphincter injury?
4.  How deep were the injuries?
5.  How  the injuries were sutured?
6. The English language  should be corrected by a native speaker.
I would advise the authors to change the article  to : The healing process  of the third degree
anal sphincter injury  with  the transperineal ultrasound.
Title: Endometrial cancer with concomitant endometriosis is highly associated with ovarian
endometrioid carcinoma: a retrospective cohort study
Version: 4 Date: 05 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
This paper demonstrated endometrial cancer with concomitant endometriosis is highly
associated with ovarian endometrioid carcinoma by a retrospective cohort study. This topics is
important, interesting, and useful for clinical setting. If some points was modified, this paper
will be more sophisticated.
a) The pathological information in this paper was got from pathological records. Did this paper
use 2014 WHO criteria or 2020 WHO criteria as the pathological criteria ?
b) In this paper, the diagnosis of SEOC was based on the criteria by Scully and Young. This
summary should be mentioned in this paper.
c) Did endometriosis in this paper include adenomyosis? Is ovarian endometria defied as the
status that diseases are limited to ovary? It should be described in this paper.
d) Patients with endometriosis was younger and more frequently had G1/2 endometrioid
carcinoma. These factors are considered as the factor of better prognostic factor. However, there
were no significant differences of PFS and OS between two groups. I propose you should discuss
the reason in the discussion.
e) The strongest point of this paper was the association between endometrial cancer with
concomitant endometriosis and the higher rate of the complication of ovarian endometrioid
carcinoma. If so, this paper should make the table characteristics according to the status of
SEOC. And, univariate and multivariate analysis to examine the risk of SEOC was performed
by logistic regression analysis. Would you like to give me the answer to my question?
f) Did all patients have the same histology of uterine and ovary? This detail should be described.
Also, the authors mentioned endometriosis is the risk factor of ovarian endometrioid and cleat
cell carcinoma. In this paper, one cases have serous carcinoma and one case have serous
carcinoma containing mixed carcinoma. If serous carcinoma was derived from endometriosis,
you should describe the presumed carcinogenesis.
Title: Endometrial cancer with concomitant endometriosis is highly associated with ovarian
endometrioid carcinoma: a retrospective cohort study
Version: 4 Date: 14 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
I read with interest the manuscript which falls within the aim of the Journal. The topic is
interesting and the manuscript is well-written.
Comment #1
A minor issues need to be addressed, as follows:
Line 56. Please rephrase this sentence: “ The pathogenesis of endometriosis is considered to
involve regurgitation of the uterine endometrium”
Comment #2
The authors described the clinicopathological characteristics of EC patients with endometriosis.
However, I suggest to describe also the association between EC and adenomyosis in the
“introduction” section. It would be also interesting to compare the clinical and pathological
characteristics of EAOCs patients to those of EC patients with adenomyosis and EC patients
with pelvic endometriosis.
Title: Fertility decision and its associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel
multinomial logistic regression analysis
Version: 1 Date: 14 Apr 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear author your manuscript is interesting and publishable if you address the following
comments.
General comments
There are a lot of grammar  error , the authors should address these issues for example
punctuation, plural or singular  form . Construct  meaning  sentence.
#Abstract
introduction
1. Inline numbers 21-22 have grammar error.
objective
you can make decisions and their in-line number 23
# Methods
2.Abbrevation is don't recommended in the abstract.  SSA in line 24
3.In line 26-27 punctuation and grammar problems e.g decision were.......
4.in line 28-29 grammatically is not correct.
5. It is not clear why you used both random and fixed effect model?
6.line 38 post primary .....is not clear what does it mean?  working women also is not clear.
7.line 39....women with a higher number of living children.... is not clear
8. in line 46 ...In this study, higher proportions of women had a desire for more children and a
small proportion of women had undecided fertility desire. What is your cut of point to say high
proportions and small proportion?
9. in line 49. ..Therefore, public health interventions on fertility control, as well as those aimed
at designing . your conclusion is out of your title, which means is there similar with fertility
desire and fertility control?  revised your conclusion based on your findings.
you should put your recommendations specifically like
1.
2.
3..........so forth
#Background
1.line 56 grammatically is not correct
2.line 57 sub-Saharan Africa
3. lines 58-60 grammatically are not correct
4.line 61 punctuation error
5.line 66 make like this Contraceptive use is essential to achieving fertility desire and for
pregnancy spacing.
6. 67 punctuation error
7. 67-69   grammatically are not correct.
8.line 72, Fertility preference is influenced by numerous interrelated factors. this sentence  out
of your objective ,remove it.
9. lines in 77-78  grammatically  are not correct.
# Methods
1. lines in 86-87   grammatically  are not correct.
2. line 89 decisions
3. lines 93-94 grammatically  are not correct.
4. lines 98-99 grammatically  are not correct.
5.in lines 109-110      For this study, it was recoded into yes (if a woman was exposed to at
least one media) and no (otherwise).  you said that woman exposed to at least one media  per
week, monthly or year.
6. in line 121 -122 make like this  "We have employed a multilevel multinomial regression
analysis in the fixed-effect analysis since the outcome variable has three categories."
7. in lines 132-133  grammatically  are not correct.
# Results
what are your ground to say most ,majority........
1. lines 143-145  grammatically  are not correct.
2. lines 146-148 grammatically  are not correct.
3. in lines 155-157 grammatically  are not correct.
4. line 177 grammar issue
Title: Fertility decision and its associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel
multinomial logistic regression analysis
Version: 1 Date: 13 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
The study is very relevant and critically addresses a public health issue “fertility”. However,
authors need to address the comments below to improve the paper.
Comments
Abstract: (Page 2-3): Kindly, follow the journal format. This needs to be shortened.
Background: This is well written and its adequate.
Methods:
Page 5: The outcome variable- In low income countries especially SSA, married women would
wish to have at least a child. Still, the fertility decision of a married woman who has no child/
not infecund nor sterilized in this case may easily be predicted. In my view,  I would propose
exclusion of women who have never given birth in the analysis.
Page 6, line 110-111: Change “educational level” to “level of education” and respondent to
woman.
Also, authors also need to explain how a variable like current use of contraceptives was
measured.
Line 119: Authors need to explain further how decision-making autonomy was categorized. If a
woman had decision on one component would she be considered to have autonomy. This should
be elaborated.
Page 7, line 127-129: The sentence is not well written. Please revise it.
Page 7: The methodology described and used for the analysis is appropriate.
Results
- Authors should be consistent with the number of decimal places adopted.
- There are no recommendations provided. Authors need to provide practical recommendation
which are based on the study findings.
Title: Fertility decision and its associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel
multinomial logistic regression analysis
Version: 3 Date: 19 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
I would like to thank you for giving me to view this paper.
This manuscript is publishable if the author should address the following comments.
line 208 ...it needs modification ...groups see having ....
your recommendation is not based on your findings.
please forward your recommendation to the responsible bodies. For example
First....., secondly......so no