JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Reviewer's report
Title:Traumatic physical health consequences of intimate partner violence
against women: What is the role of community-level factors?
Version: 4Date:16 November 2011
Reviewer: Rashmi Gangamma
Reviewer's report:
The author presents a more compelling manuscript in this revision. With regards
to the issue of decision making autonomy, the author refers to four articles in the
response to reviewer comments. I would suggest incorporating them in the
manuscript.
I like the discussion of education as a protective factor in IPV. As I mentioned in
my earlier review, however, quite a few policy level changes and intervention
avenues are compressed in two sentences. I again ask the author to elaborate.
How does one prevent controlling behaviors, for instance? Would this require a
collaborative effort involving several health and mental health professionals?
How would this work in Nigeria? I am pushing the author to discuss how this
study's findings would translate in action.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Traumatic physical health consequences of intimate partner violence
against women: What is the role of community-level factors?
Version: 4Date:18 November 2011
Reviewer: Jill Messing
Reviewer's report:
The manuscript is much improved.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:"Its almost expected": influences on smoking initiation and maintenance
among Aboriginal women in rural Australia: a qualitative study
Version: 1Date:4 April 2011
Reviewer: Vanessa Johnston
Reviewer's report:
please see attachment for my review
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:"Its almost expected": rural Australian Aboriginal women's reflections on
smoking initiation and maintenance: a qualitative study
Version: 2Date:14 July 2011
Reviewer: Vanessa Johnston
Reviewer's report:
The authors have done a very good job in responding to both reviewers'
comments. I believe that this paper should be accepted for publication with no
further revisions.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Validation of a Susceptibility, Benefits, and Barrier Scale for Mammography
Screening among Peruvian Women: a cross-sectional study
Version: 1Date:4 August 2011
Reviewer: ilknur aydin avci
Reviewer's report:
Discretionary Revisions
• This is a significant study to refer to the importance of nurse's role for promoting
early detection of breast cancer.
• But I wonder why authors did not study seriousness and health motivation.
Champion’ 1999 article doesn’t include this subscale. But Champion’ 1993
version includes all subscales of health belief towards breast cancer screening.
Especially, perceived seriousness is very important for health belief regarding to
breast cancer screening. Authors can examine this subscale.
• This manuscript was written very well.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Reviewer's report
Title:The facilitating factors and barriers encountered in the adoption of a
humanized birth care approach in a highly specialized university affiliated
hospital
Version: 1Date:1 July 2011
Reviewer: Meredith McIntyre
Reviewer's report:
This paper presents important insights into why women are choosing high tech
medical birthing services. Unfortunately these findings are buried in what
appears to be a chapter from a PHD thesis containing every finding no matter
how incidental of a large mixed methods study.
Major Compulsory Revisions
The paper needs to be rewritten into a more concise report. The important
findings for this paper need to be more clearly presented and explored. The
author needs to make sure that this paper is clearly adding to what is already
known in the area and what new information is being presented in this paper.
The new information should be the focus of the paper.
I suggest revisiting the definition of humanized care for the purposes of this
paper removing those aspects that do not directly relate to new information. For
example 'mother baby rooming in' involving healthy term babies represents an
innovation that is 25 - 30 years old and adds nothing to this paper. Contemporary
issues that should be the focus of this paper are the humanizing influences that
differ between highly medicalised care and midwifery-led or birth centre care.
These include the issues of poor communication associated with multiple
caregivers, lack of continuity of carer, the delivery of women centered care. The
findings related to women seeking to feel safe (including pain management) and
finding safety in a high tech birthing environment are important and need to be
the featured as such in this paper. The abstract, findings, discussion and
conclusion all need to be revised to achieve a more focused report. The
reference list contains too many old references and must be updated to reflect
contemporary knowledge and practices.
Minor Essential Revisions
Page 7 (Results section). A space needs to be added between women and
83and also between 95 and (60.5%). Remove the words 'table 1 about here'
Page 10 (section 3.2). Add a space between Prof and 8.
Page 12 (section 4.1.1). Remove the words 'table 2 about here'
Page 26 (section 6.3.2) Add a space between Prof and 8.
Page 31 para 2. remove the 'a'.. Finally this research had ...
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:The facilitating factors and barriers encountered in the adoption of a
humanized birth care approach in a highly specialized university affiliated
hospital
Version: 2Date:14 September 2011
Reviewer: Meredith McIntyre
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
The authors have addressed the concerns of both the reviewers. The quality and
impact of the paper is significantly improved by the revisions.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:The facilitating factors and barriers encountered in the adoption of a
humanized birth care approach in a highly specialized university affiliated
hospital
Version: 2Date:16 September 2011
Reviewer: Michael C Klein
Reviewer's report:
There are bi major compulsory revisions
Minor essential revisions:
pg 2 the authors speak about family doctors and obstetricians who provide
antenatal care. It should be "obstetricians and family physicians who provide
ONLY antenatal care..."
pg 4 If 40% are high risk then 60% are not high risk, making my earlier point that
the hospital serves a community function as well as it high risk function. Hence
the authors should not be speaking of "other" women who are not high risk but of
the majority of women who are not high risk.
Pag 15 term Valorization does not translate. I think the authors mean validity or
value of, meaning that the hospital values both humanization and its high risk
role
pg 23 authors speak of the administrator as being excited about. I think the
authors mean that they were proud about the possibilty of reconciling the two
approaches in one institution
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Behind the Silence of Harmony: Risk Factor for Physical and Sexual
Violence among Women in Rural Indonesia
Version: 2Date:17 October 2011
Reviewer: Bosiljka Djikanovic
Reviewer's report:
The authors carefully considered comments and suggestions and the manuscript
has improved. Here are some minor points for further adjustments:
Minor Essential REvisions
- in Abstract, Results: third sentence “(…) among a small group of husbands (…)”
is not sufficiently clear, at least here in the abstract
- related to Table 1, authors’ comment is satisfying, although it would be still nice
to read in the text why age intervals are just in two groups
- pg. 10, the first paragraph (four lines above the subtitle “Limitations the Study).
It seems that something is missing in the sentence: "This phenomena reflects
how women in the state of “learned helplessness” due to the cycle of violence
[22]". Also, in the next sentence please consider replacing “by” with “to”: “(…)
exposed by their husband’s abuse (…)” to “(…) exposed to their husband’s
abuse (…)”
- paper would still benefit from careful spelling and grammar check (for example,
the subtitle “Limitations the Study” might be revised itself, as well)
Level of interest: An article of importance 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.
Reviewer's report
Title:Intimate partner violence among women with HIV infection in rural Uganda:
critical implications for policy and practice
Version: 4Date:31 August 2011
Reviewer: Rachel Jewkes
Reviewer's report:
I am very happy with the revisions. Just two minor things you should fix before
finalising:
p.9 first sentence - should read 'half as likely'
Table 1 history of IPV and religion - the categories do not add up to 100%
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Baropodometry on Women Suffering From Chronic Pelvic Pain - a
cross-sectional study
Version: 1Date:12 September 2011
Reviewer: Gro Killi Haugstad
Reviewer's report:
I think this study is a bit difficult to understand. How can You use this instrument
to measure and evaluate the effect of pelvic pain ? Clear this out!
Other studies have also found postural changes in CPP patients - but you just
mention the Haugstad study. Montenegro et al and also others have mentioned
it- take it in.
Is it other components than the pressure on the feet that is relevant for the
postural changes ?
In the other studies you refere to, are the posture changes the most relevant
findings in the CPP patients ?
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Baropodometry on Women Suffering From Chronic Pelvic Pain - a
cross-sectional study
Version: 2Date:1 October 2011
Reviewer: Max Brenner
Reviewer's report:
Minor Essential Revisions:
- The second paragraph of the results is still confusing and should be modified,
especially because it sounds like the authors are comparing apples and oranges
(lumbar pain vs. bilateral chronic lumbar pain). Additionally, based on Table 1,
"bilateral chronic lumbar pain" appears like it should actually be "bilateral chronic
hypogastric pain"
Minor Issues not for Publication:
- Sentences in need of language revision: last sentence of Abstract, 3rd sentence
of Background, penultimate sentence of background, last two lines of Table 2
- "considered being selectable to" -> "only included in"
- "triggering points" -> "trigger points"
- "lumbar square" -> "quadratus lumborum"
- Discussion sentence that starts with "Probably due to previous explanation" has
subject but no verb/object
- Titles for Tables 1 and 2 should be a little more descriptive.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Baropodometry on Women Suffering From Chronic Pelvic Pain - a
cross-sectional study
Version: 2Date:11 October 2011
Reviewer: Gro Killi Haugstad
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests' below.
Reviewer's report
Title:Whether the pelvic organs prolapse can be appropriately screened without
a physical examination? (A community based study)
Version: 1Date:16 August 2011
Reviewer: Kazem Mohammad
Reviewer's report:
All of the above should be revising fully. On the other hand abstract, methods,
discussion have to completely revise and background and results need to minor
revisions.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Reviewer's report
Title:Whether the pelvic organs prolapse can be appropriately screened without
a physical examination? (A community based study)
Version: 1Date:2 September 2011
Reviewer: Gulnara W Santana
Reviewer's report:
I can say that the article is well written and the title is very interesting.
Minor essential revisions: in the Methods, there are three questions that I would
like to ask: 1. According to the PFDI questionnaire,didn´t you test the Persian
version in the population?
2. What protocol did you use for diagnosis of POP? In my opinion It should be
more described.
3. Did you do the test-retest with the POPSSI as it is generally done with
questionnaires?
In the Discussion: When you assure that the predictive value of POPSSI was
significantly improved when women had already been aware of their POP
condition than those who didn´t know it, what are the options for these women?
I suggest to put another table with the characteristics of PFDI and POPSSI in
phase I, since It was validated for this study.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Screening of the pelvic organ prolapse without a physical examination (A
community based study)
Version: 2Date:20 October 2011
Reviewer: Gulnara W Santana
Reviewer's report:
Everything was corrected according it was asked.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Screening of the pelvic organ prolapse without a physical examination (A
community based study)
Version: 2Date:23 October 2011
Reviewer: Kazem Mohammad
Reviewer's report:
I belive that the authors complied to my previous requests.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
No competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:"I am nothing": Experiences of Loss among Women Suffering from Severe
Birth Injuries in Tanzania
Version: 1Date:2 October 2011
Reviewer: Luis L Cabero
Reviewer's report:
It is a paper that has well defined the questions that authors wants to develop.
The methods seems to be adequately. The discussion is very interesting,
specially due the authors discus a very important social problem that impact
tremendously in the quality of life.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Reviewer's report
Title:"I am nothing": Experiences of Loss among Women Suffering from Severe
Birth Injuries in Tanzania
Version: 1Date:11 October 2011
Reviewer: Helena Lindgren
Reviewer's report:
Despite the increased attention on maternal mortality during recent decades,
which has resulted in maternal health being defined as a Millennium
Development Goal (MDG), the disability and suffering from obstetric fistula
remains a neglected issue in global health. Continuous leaking of urine and the
physical, emotional and social suffering associated with it, has a profound impact
on women’s quality of life. This study seeks to explore the physical, cultural and
psychological dimensions of living with obstetric fistula, and demonstrate how
these experiences shape the identities of women affected by the condition.
Methods
A cross-sectional study with qualitative and quantitative components was used to
explore the experiences of Tanzanian women living with obstetric fistula and
those of their husbands. The study was conducted at the Comprehensive
Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania hospital in Dar es Salaam, Bugando
Medical Centre in Mwanza, and Mpwapwa district, in Dodoma region.
Conveniently selected samples of 16 women were interviewed, and 151
additional women responded to a questionnaire. In addition, 12 women affected
by obstetric fistula and six husbands of these affected women participated in a
focus group discussions. Data were analysed using content data analysis
framework and statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) version 15 for
Microsoft windows.
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Results
The study revealed a deep sense of loss. Loss of body control, loss of the social
roles as women and wives, loss of integration in social life, and loss of dignity
and self- worth were located at the core of these experiences.
Conclusion
The women living with obstetric fistula experience a deep sense of loss that had
negative impact on their identity and quality of life. Acknowledging affected
women’s real-life experiences is important in order to understand the occurrence
and management of obstetric fistula, as well as prospects after treatment. This
knowledge will help to improve women’s sense of self-worth and maintain their
identity as women, wives, friends and community members. Educational
programmes to empower women socially and economically and counselling of
families of women living with obstetric fistula may help these women receive
medical and social support that is necessary.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:An examination of the health and wellbeing of childless women: A
cross-sectional exploratory study in Victoria, Australia
Version: 1Date:29 August 2011
Reviewer: William Yates
Reviewer's report:
This manuscript presents the results of a study of health and well-being in a
group of women without children in Australia. Childless women in the sample
self-reported lower general health, vitality, social functioning and mental health
compared to a control group of women. The authors note their study supports
more research to address the health and social services need in this population.
This study addresses an important issue. The authors can strengthen their
manuscript by addressing the following issues:
1. It would be helpful to determine the exact nature of the childlessness of this
population. The authors note the sample is biased by high academic
performance. Do the authors know how many of the sample are childless by
choice? How many of the sample would meet criteria for infertility, i.e. one year of
unprotected intercourse? One might expect different health and mental health
between women childless by choice compared to those who are unable to
conceive.
2. The authors note that the cross-sectional design of their study does not allow
them to make comments about causality. But one interesting finding is the
impaired social functioning psychometric and what seems like a relative large
percentage of women in the sample not married and not in a relationship (32%).
Do the authors know whether this represents a higher percentage that that found
in the general population? If so, one could speculate that primary poor social
function might contribute to lack of successful partnering contributing to the
childless state.
3. The reference section could be updated by considering and incorporating the
following recent publications relevant to the authors research.
1: Klemetti R, Raitanen J, Sihvo S, Saarni S, Koponen P. Infertility, mental
disorders and well-being--a nationwide survey. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2010
May;89(5):677-82. PubMed PMID: 20196679.
2: Tamakoshi A, Tamakoshi K, Lin Y, Mikami H, Inaba Y, Yagyu K, Kikuchi S; for
the JACC Study Group. Number of children and all-cause mortality risk: results
from the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. Eur J Public Health. 2010 Nov 26.
[Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21113028.
3: Yates WR, Meller WH, Lund BC, Thurber S, Grambsch PL. Early-onset Major
Depressive Disorder in men is associated with childlessness. J Affect Disord.
2010 Jul;124(1-2):187-90. PubMed PMID: 19931182.
4: Grundy E, Kravdal O. Fertility history and cause-specific mortality: a
register-based analysis of complete cohorts of Norwegian women and men. Soc
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Med. 2010 Jun;70(11):1847-57. Epub 2010 Feb 23. PubMed PMID: 20299140.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests