Title: Exploring Iraqi people’sperception about early marriage: A qualitative study
Version: 0 Date: 03 Aug 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thanks for the opportunity to review the manuscript entitled Perception about earlymarriage in
Iraqi Kurdistan region: A qualitative study”
1- Add keywords to the abstract
2- " Why 9 years? Affects under 18: Early marriage, or child marriage, is prevalent and can
affect children as young as nine years old".
3- I advise the authors to find a native English speaker to proofread the manuscript. There are
numerous instances of improper grammar and sentence structure. Editing the paper by native
speakers is important in qualitative research. .
4- In the last paragraph of the introduction, you should fully explain why you used the qualitative
method?
5- The introduction is poorly written and needs to be rewritten. I suggest you use newer articles.
Some of the following articles about the situation of Kurdish women should also be used,
although it is mostly about the situation of Iranian Kurdish women, but they have many cultural
commonalities.
Yoosefi Lebni J, Mansourian, M., Taghdisi, M. H., Khosravi, B., Ziapour, A., & Özdenk, G. D.
(2019). A study of Kurdish women’s tragic self-immolation in Iran: a qualitative study. Burns,
45(7), 1715-1722
Yoosefi Lebni J, Abbas J, Khorami F, Khosravi B, Jalali A and Ziapour A (2020) Challenges
Facing Women Survivors of Self-Immolation in the Kurdish Regions of Iran: A Qualitative
Study. Front. Psychiatry 11:778. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00778
Yoosefi Lebni J, Solhi M,Fard Azar FE, Farahani FK. Qualitative study of social determinants
of child marriage in Kurdish regions of Iran: Evidence for health promotion interventions. J Edu
Health Promot 2020;9:242.
Yoosefi Lebni J, Khalajabadi Farahani F, Solhi M, Ebadi Fard Azar F. Causes and Grounds of
Childbirth Fear and Coping Strategies Used by Kurdish Adolescent Pregnant Women in Iran:
A Qualitative Study. J Reprod Infertil. 2021;22(1):47-56
6- In method session .
-Explain the exclusion and inclusion criteria
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- Explain more about how participants access and select
Please provide the interview questions in the table.
- State the time and place of the interviews - the average time of the interviews
- Please explain how ‘theoretical saturation’ was judged. I assume it was judged to have been
attained when no new themes or information emerged in subsequent interviews. It would be
helpful to justify your point about saturation and sample size with a reference to a methodological
text, to support your point. I suggest you refer to the following articles:
Yoosefi Lebni, J., Khorami, F., Ebadi Fard Azar, F. et al. Experiences of rural women with
damages resulting from an earthquake in Iran: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 20, 625
(2020).
-# How did you select participants? Explain the process of purposeful sampling.
# How did you protect the privacy of your participants?
-Explain more about the data analysis process
-Explain more about sampling
-Add ethical considerations
-Explain more about how the Goba and Lincoln criteria are used. Just saying that you used them
is not enough.
7- In the results section
- Present the demographic characteristics of the participants in a new table.
- Mention important characteristics of the participant such as, age, etc. at the end of each quote
- To better understand the reader of the article, please include the categories and subcategories
in a table in the Findings section
- Provide more in-depth explanation of the following categories. It is more a description than
an explanation
8- In the discussion section,
-The discussion can be improved further by include more previous study, try to add more study
and be more logical.
-emphasize the new research findings and mention what your research added to the previous
research
-A lot of the discussion felt like it was either restating findings from the results or bringing up
findings that were not in the results, rather than really discussing what the results mean. I think
this paper would be much stronger if the results were expanded to really describe all the different
aspects of each category. Then, the discussion could focus on what this means and why it matters.
- Limitations and strengths to be added to the study