JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression among Women with Advanced Pelvic
Organ Prolapse in Northwest Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study
Version: 0 Date: 27 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
How is depression linked with OP?
The following are suggestions and comments for this manuscript.
Abstract section:
- Make your abstract smart by avoiding direct copying from the document by including the most
important components.
- Avoid abbreviation
- How do you see your data collection period?
- how consecutive sampling?
- Does the tool validate for this population?
-  Are your all questionnaires structured?
- Based on what criteria your study is high (what is your reference)
- Avoid redundancy in results and conclusion
Introduction section
- Use either an introduction or background
- What is the difference b/n line 63-65
- Line 70 cite reference (depression symptoms is transient ……….)
- Line 72 cite reference (depression have ………)
- In general, this section is full of definitions, and grammatical and punctuation errors, it is
very huge (4 pages), and you use a single reference for a lot of paragraphs. So, make it short
by focusing on your scope of study. Showing more about the effects, burden, and problem of
depression on this population.
-  You can talk about the tools in the methods and materials section.
Methods and materials section
- Write your:
#  source population,
# study population,
# inclusion and exclusion criteria (there is no such thing in your manuscript)
- Write the study variables separately:
• Dependent variable
• Independent variable
- Operational definition: define based on the tool you used and cite references for them
- What is the difference b/n tools and instruments
- Did you use only the PHQ-9 tool for this study (this is a critical issue) there are no tools in
this section except the mentioned one.
- Is both sensitivity and specificity similar (88%)?
- Is PHQ-9 validated for the same population (i.e. depression in organ prolapse)
- Detail is needed about data collection tools
- What is the internal consistency of the tool?
- Are mean and median descriptive statistics?
Results section
-  The result of your study is very limited in general (since you have limited variables)
- Write your results in different sections
o Socio-demographic characteristics
o Clinical characteristics
o Prevalence/ magnitude of depression in Op (write the magnitude of depression based on the
level of severity using diagrams)
o In their heading
Discussion
The discussion section is written haphazardly and is very poor (it needs rewriting) considering
the following:
-It is not all about comparing your results with other studies rather it is beyond that:
-It should be based on the logic and critical thinking of your findings, and their implication for
developing the promotion strategies
-What is its implication
-How does a single result compare with SRAM
-Cite references for your justification
What are the strengths and limitations of your study?
Title: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression among Women with Advanced Pelvic
Organ Prolapse in Northwest Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study
Version: 5 Date: 16 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Agmas Wassie Abate
Reviewer's report:
It is an interesting topic,"Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression among Women with
Advanced Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Northwest Ethiopia."
Tha authors have addressed all the issue/s raised by the reviewer's.
Title: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression among Women with Advanced Pelvic
Organ Prolapse in Northwest Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study
Version: 5 Date: 17 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
Thank you very much for your efforts, which have substantially improved your manuscript.
I believe almost all of my comments have been successfully addressed and I am in favor of
publication of this manuscript. However, there is one comment that needs further elaboration.
1. Still I need response for variable which it is confidence interval cross 1.  you included stage of
POP in multivariable logistic regression model. but, the value 1.5(0.91-2.39) shows confidence
interval is from 0.91-2.39, which include 1. At this point it is showing us there is no association.
So how why you  include?
Title: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression among Women with Advanced Pelvic
Organ Prolapse in Northwest Ethiopia: Cross-sectional Study
Version: 5 Date: 25 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
The title should include the study design.
abstraction -introduction
Rather than listing the symptoms showing the burden of the illness is better.
how do you select the study participants
Do all the questionnaires used to collect the data are structured?
it is better to rewrite in such a way. the global burden of depression is rising dramatically; as a
result, approximately 322 million people are affected and living with it (cite reference).
under data collection tools please describe all the data collection instruments.
what is the importance of Figure 1?
Is your study comparative? revised the first sentence of the discussion under the paragraph.
the discussion section still needs thorough revision.
better to include the public and clinical implications of the study
and write a conclusion and recommendation individually.
Title: The Interrelationship between Obesity and Race in Breast Cancer Prognosis: A
Prospective Cohort Study
Version: 1 Date: 14 Jan 2024
Reviewer's report:
In the submitted paper (submitted ID-26a73cd6-79d7-46db-a34f-6a0358746e93), the authors
have assessed the association between obesity, race and breast cancer mortality. There are
several important issues existing in this paper.
1. The authors grouped breast cancer patients by self-reported race and ethnicity as NHW/Other,
Hispanic White and Black. How many black patients are self-reported as Hispanic Blacks? Did
Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Blacks have similar survival or mortality risk in this study?
2.The authors tested the joint effect of obesity and race/ethnicity on PFS in the multivariate Cox
regression analysis. According to the results, it suggests that the main contributor for the positive
associations is Black race status in patients with early stage of breast cancer, and there seems
no interaction between obesity and Black race. It is better to report the p values for interaction
between obesity and Black race across different strata of stage in the table and/ or in the context
of Results. Meanwhile, there was no effect on PFS and mortality among advanced breast cancer
patients. Did the authors consider testing potential interactions between stage, obesity and Black
race status?
3. The authors did not adjust socioeconomic status, comorbidities, and treatment in the
multivariate Cox regression models. After adjusting for these factors, how about results of the
joint effect of obesity and race/ethnicity on PFS and risk of death?
4. Sentences in Line 253-255 explained the rationale of choosing reference group; however, the
authors can also clarify the rationale of using ‘Non-Black obese’ as the reference group to the
Methods.
5. I think that one important limitation of this study is that the sample size of Black patients,
because all significant associations had wide confident interval for Table 4 A and B, indicating
limitations of the sample size and statistical power in the analyses. The authors need to discuss
this in the Discussion section.
Title: The Interrelationship between Obesity and Race in Breast Cancer Prognosis: A
Prospective Cohort Study
Version: 1 Date: 15 Jan 2024
Reviewer's report:
Obesity is a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer, recurrence, and worse clinical
outcomes. Black women have a higher obesity prevalence, higher incidence of aggressive breast
cancer (TNBC), and worse breast cancer prognosis. The paper examines the characteristics
(patient & clinical) associated with the  PFS and OS in a cohort of racially diverse breast cancer
patients from two hospitals in Miami, Florida. The study did not find an association between
obesity and PFS or OS.
The manuscript is written clearly and concisely. The current literature adequately supports
the introduction and discussion. Methodology/statistical tools and tables are appropriate. The
significant association of combined black race and obesity with worse PFS in early-stage breast
cancer is an interesting finding and contributes to the scientific literature.
Questions
In this study, BMI was categorized as obese (>30 kg/m2)  and non-obese (<30 kg/m2).  Did the
authors include persons considered underweight (<18.5 kg/m2) for the non-obese category? Is
there a concern that this group might include women with unintentional weight loss and muscle
loss?  Did the authors consider removing these individuals? How might it affect your study
results?
For future studies focused on race, obesity, and PFS/OS, the authors should consider including
measures such as structural barriers and stress when assessing the association between patient
and clinic-level factors on breast cancer PFA and OS outcomes.
Title: The Interrelationship between Obesity and Race in Breast Cancer Prognosis: A
Prospective Cohort Study
Version: 5 Date: 18 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
The authors have addressed most of the previous comments. However, there is another comment
according to the revised manuscript. As the authors mentioned in the response, no socioeconomic
status data was collected in this study. If the study was linked to patients' clinic records, health
insurance status/ type can be considered as a proxy of socioeconomic status in the analyses.
If no data is available again, the authors need to discuss this limitation and potential residual
confounding of unmeasured variables.
Title: Association between serum vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis in women#a cross-sectional
study
Version: 1 Date: 10 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Research topic is relevant and this paper utilized an excellent representative national data. I have
relatively two main comments/questions. I may have missed authors' description on these two .
Just clarify.
1. For this paper, 1999 - 2006 NHANES data were combined. Please discuss how did you handle
the weights for the analysis. Have you used weighted estimates by applying proper weights to
the data  if necessary?
2. For the analyses, have you considered sampling design parameters (i.e., stratification,
clustering, and weights). If you haven't, please provide the reason why.
I have additional comments in the below by line number:
L. 115. Reference  19 should be more specific than just listing CDC webpage: https://
www.cdc.gov/ Which document/report?
L. 117: "After exclusion participants with missing variables ," ===> Please list the variables
with the number of missing values like A(4). for example.
L. 166: "Only females were present in sex" ===> I think this is redundant as your title indicates.
You analyzed women samples. The same is true in l. 216.  Also I think we can omit row "Sex"
in Table 1.  By the way what is p=.251?
L. 184: "stratified analyses" ===> Separate analyses? Please elaborate if special techniques were
utilized.
L. 198: "performed trend analysis " ===> Elaborate the "trend analysis" here or in Methods
section.
Ll. 207 - 210: "the researchers used the statistical package R (The R Foundation; http://
www.r-project.org; version 3.6.3) and Empower Stats software (www.empowerstats.net, X&Y
solutions, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts)." ===> Please list specific procedures used for each
analysis. For example, which specific procedure was used for curve fitting?
Table 2. Please interpret trend analysis results (coefficients and  confidence intervals)  in the text.
Title: Association between serum vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis in women#a cross-sectional
study
Version: 1 Date: 19 Oct 2023
Reviewer:  Samira Khayat
Reviewer's report:
Dear Editor
In this study, the authors investigated the relationship between vitamin E and Bacterial vaginitis.
Results show: Vitamin E at moderate to high concentrations may significantly reduce BV risk.
The results of the study can be useful and practical. Nevertheless, there were also some issues
that require clarification.
Title
It is better to remove the phrase "in women".
Abstract:
1. The purpose of the research should be modified according to the title.
2. Add statistical analysis software.
3. Add study time and place.
4. Correlation coefficients should be reported.
Introduction:
The introduction is very well written, just mention the available treatments.
Materials and methods:
1. The Data Sources and Study Design section should be corrected, it is ambiguously written.
2. Write the type of study.
3. The place of study should be written accurately.
4. Add sample size formula.
5. The inclusion criteria should be written.
Results
1. Sex should be removed from the demographic table.
Discussion
Other studies have also discussed the relationship between vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis.
Use them. Link to some related articles:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10264601/
https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-019-0814-6
Title: Association between serum vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis in women#a cross-sectional
study
Version: 2 Date: 24 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for authors' kind replies to my questions/comments. We have to consider design
parameters (stratification, clustering, and weighting) for NHANES data analysis since NHANES
is a "complex" survey data. As I implied in my comments/questions, I would like to make sure
data were analyzed corrected for unbiased and efficient estimates by considering relevant design
parameters.
Title: Association between serum vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis in women#a cross-sectional
study
Version: 3 Date: 20 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for revising the manuscript. however, still it is unclear to this reviewer how you did
weigh the data with proper weights. Please explain a bit more.
Also as I may have indicated earlier you have to make it clear how you analyzed the data  with
proper approaches. (Note that NHANES is a complex survey data using complex sampling
approaches).
Title: Association between serum vitamin E and bacterial vaginitis in women#a cross-sectional
study
Version: 5 Date: 23 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
- The title should be corrected and don't remove the women, it should be clear in which people
or group it was
- The results in the abstract are very brief, you should write the numerical results
- The necessity of the study should be written in the introduction
- Bring the studies done in this field in the country
- - Write how to choose study samples
- Ethical considerations of the study should be written
- Write statistical analyzes separately for each test
- The discussion and conclusion should be modified
- The conclusion is very brief
- The use of the study should be written
- Write similar studies and contradictions in the discussion
Title: Inequality gaps in modern contraceptive use and associated factors among women of
reproductive age in Nigeria between 2003 and 2018
Version: 0 Date: 30 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
The paper set out to look at the difference in modern contraceptive use of women aged 15-49
between 2003 and 2018 and the associated factors. The author made an effort to examine this.
However, the argument is weak and the paper is not clear enough much need to be done.
Give background on the inequality situation in Nigeria and how this can possibly affect the use
of modern contraceptives. Also. It is not clear the inequality you are assessing. Is it between the
time periods or between women?
What has been found on the subject matter in previous studies? You need to give a brief literature
review.
You need to give the justification for the age-stratified category. Is there a scientific justification
for it?
Sentence 158-161 is not clear. What is the reference category stated in line 162?
Title: Inequality gaps in modern contraceptive use and associated factors among women of
reproductive age in Nigeria between 2003 and 2018
Version: 1 Date: 18 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
This study examines the Inequality gaps in modern contraceptive use and associated factors
among women of reproductive age in Nigeria between 2003 and 2018. The study contributes to
the body of knowledge and the manuscript is well written. However, there are a few concerns
listed below to be addressed.
Justify the age group categorization. Another potential inequality stratum would have been
marital status.
Use the service of a language editor for grammar correction.
Title: Continuous Chains: Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization
Among Displaced Women in a War Context
Version: 0 Date: 06 Jan 2024
Reviewer's report:
The paper addresses a significant topic among specific populations and contributes valuable
knowledge. However, several aspects require refinement.
Introduction:
In the introductory section, the authors discuss child maltreatment and its potential for
future revictimization. While this is a critical aspect, especially given the argument that past
victimization influences subsequent experiences, the paper primarily focuses on displaced
women encountering intimate partner violence. Thus, the introduction would benefit from a
more targeted structure concerning the study's population. Specifically, it should more directly
address violence against women, positioning child maltreatment as one of the individual-level
correlates within the broader social-ecological framework. This adjustment would align the
introduction more closely with the core focus of the study and provide more explicit context
for the reader.
Also, the context of war and displacement is another aspect that needs to be elaborated in the
function of IPV.
Another crucial aspect requiring further elaboration is the issue of polyvictimization. In this
context, it is essential to delve into the literature on the co-occurrence of various forms of
violence across different contexts and times. This exploration will provide a comprehensive
understanding of the multifaceted nature of violence and its impact on individuals in diverse
situations.
Methodology:
Instruments: Could you provide at least two sample questions from the War and Adversity
Exposure Checklist (WAEC) to understand the instrument's focus and approach better?
Analysis: On page 8, line 208, you use Pearson correlation. Was the normality of the data verified
prior to this analysis? Linear regression may not be the most appropriate method if the data are
not normally distributed. Instead, binary logistic regression might be more suitable for the data
characteristics.
Discussion Section:
In the discussion on page 13, lines 336-337, you note that the study identified specific family
characteristics and structures associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). However, these
characteristics should have been mentioned in the introduction. It would be beneficial to
elaborate on these aspects in the introduction for coherence and context.
Additionally, I recommend a more structured approach to the discussion, particularly by
delineating each variable and its association with IPV. This should include focused discussions
on the relationships between IPV and child maltreatment and IPV in the context of war and
displacement to provide a more comprehensive analysis.
Finally, the practical implications of the study need to be elaborated. A more emphasis to be
given to the contribution of the study to diversity on science.
Title: Continuous Chains: Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization
Among Displaced Women in a War Context
Version: 0 Date: 10 Jan 2024
Reviewer's report:
This is an excellent article which I recommend for publication with minor corrections.
The research objectives are original and very relevant. The interpretation of the results is well
contextualized to take into account the important macrosocial issues in the study of intimate
partners violence.
My recommendations are:
1) Specify the title of the article as follows "... and IPV Victimization Among Iraqi and Syrian
Refugee Women" OR "...and IPV Victimization Among Displaced Women in War Context".
2) In the procedure section, it is important to specify how the women were recruited.
3) The frequency, chronicity and severity of the IPV acts are very important to consider to
understand the type of marital dynamic (is it intimate terrorism? of an act suffered once in a
conflict context?...). It would be important for the discussion to highlight this limitation of the
measurement selected for this study, which is rather restrictive in order to draw clear conclusions.
4) In the discussion (p.11), the 36% victimization rate in the last year is compared with
the lifetime victimization rate according to WHO data. This should be nuanced, because the
victimization that emerges from the current study is much higher than lifetime victimization, it
is not at all as comparable as the authors claim.
In conclusion, I consider these to be minor adjustments and that this article deserves to be
published.
Title: Women escaping domestic violence to achieve safe housing: An integrative review
Version: 3 Date: 29 Mar 2024
Reviewer:  Catina Adams
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review your manuscript. I have attached a document with
comments and some track change suggestions.
My main feedback concerns the very surprising paucity of papers for inclusion.  When I ran a
very quick search using ProQuest Central, using only Domestic Violence and Safe Housing as
search terms, I came up with 107 papers, which, at first glance, are relevant but not included.
Just two here.
Wood, L., Schrag, R. V., Maggy, M., Brown, J., & Bethany, B. (2023). “I felt better
when I moved into my own place”: Needs and experiences of intimate partner violence
survivors in rapid rehousing. Violence Against Women, 29(6-7), 1441-1466. doi:https://
doi.org/10.1177/10778012221117600
Sullivan, C. M., López-Zerón, G., Farero, A., Ayeni, O. O., Simmons, C., Chiaramonte,
D., . . . Sprecher, M. (2023). Impact of the domestic violence housing first model on survivors’
safety and housing stability: Six month findings. Journal of Family Violence, 38(3), 395-406.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00381-x
Title: The effect of educational intervention according to Mindfulness on the psychological
well-being of female heads of households
Version: 3 Date: 30 Dec 2023
Reviewer:  Sareh Shakerian
Reviewer's report:
Dear ,
Thanks for your valuable manuscript.
The sample size and sampling method (Convenience sampling method )are biased. And it does
not represent the city of Shiraz.
In the sample size calculation section:
The study(study by Niknam et al) has been used and referenced for the sample size. It was done
in a hospital environment that had little research population.
this reference cannot be valid.
In this study, the city of Shiraz is considered. and the research population was different.
Usually, the number of small samples applies more in clinical intervention studies, and in studies
with educational intervention, this problem may apply less.
The text needs editing.
Sincerely
Title: The effect of educational intervention according to Mindfulness on the psychological
well-being of female heads of households
Version: 3 Date: 02 Jan 2024
Reviewer's report:
- Match the keywords with the mesh
- Add the type of semi-experimental study as
- Write the results of Rosa according to the findings and it is not enough to just write the values.
- Explain the importance and necessity of the study in the introduction section.
- Write the application of the study at the end of the introduction
- Why haven't you used accurate and reliable statistical methods to determine the sample size?
- Modify the section on the implementation of educational intervention
It is written very briefly.
- In the findings section, add the amount of difference before and after to the number 4 table.
- At the beginning of the discussion of the article, write the final conclusion of the article, then
compare it with other similar studies in general
Author's reasons should also be written.
- The discussion is not according to the findings, it is written very briefly and does not include
all the findings.