Reviewer ’s report  
Title: Intimate partner violence associated with low quality of life  
 
Version: 2 Date: 03 Oct 2017  
 
Reviewer: Sama h Al-Jabi 
 
Reviewer's report:  
Dear Editor  
 
Hope you are fine and in a good health.  
 
Thank you for sharing me the manuscript entitled by "Intimate partner violence associated with 
low quality of life" for peer review. The paper has tried to investigate the qu ality of life among 
abused women in Norway.  
 
This is an important topic through providing general view about Psychological and physical 
violence and the women quality of life in a group of women from Norway. However, the 
following comments should help you  revise your paper.  
 
1. Aim of the study: not clear (in abstract and in introduction section). May be you should 
include the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV), both psychological and physical 
violence. In addition, the term "new samples" is no t clear in the aim section.    
2. Try to use the "Passive voice" in your sentence, rather than "we".  
3. Method: How you determine the random sampling "especially in the group of Abused 
women", please clarify.  
4. Analysis section:  
 - SPSS statement shoul d be in this section.  
 - Number of participants included should be in the result section  
5. Please include the value of Cronbach's alpha in the method section.  
6. Mention the ethical consideration in the method part.  
7. Result: any time you begin a paragraph, use alphabet.  
8. Result: too short, need more description to be more clear.  
9. Add limitations at the discussion (not only the low response rate), you can include others 
like the nature of the study "cross secti onal" and the nature of the questions.  
10. Add some recommendation to the conclusion section.  
11. Table 1: "Year after education" may be "Year of education"?!  
 
 Thanks for the great effort  
 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
If not, please specify what is requir ed in your comments to the authors.  
Yes 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.  
Yes 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.  
Yes 
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manus cript or would you recommend an 
additional statistical review?  
If an additional statistical review is recommended, please speci fy what aspects require further 
assessment in your comments to the editors.  
I am able to assess the statistics  
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript : 
Acceptable  
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