Reviewer’s report
Title: 
An exploratory analysis of work engagement among women with and
without disordered eating
Version: 
0 
Date: 
26 Nov 2020
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this manuscript. This paper reports
results of secondary analysis of data collected during a longitudinal cohort study
of dieting behaviours in adolescent girls. While the paper is quite well presented,
there are some major limitations. 
In particular:
- "subclinical disordered eating" and "work engagement" are not well defined at
the start of the paper
- the link between these topics is not clear and lacks logic, unclear why this
question is important
- The background commences by discussing mental ill-health and anxiety which
does not align with the Title/Abstract
- logic of study aim is unclear - seems more likely that those with disordered
eating have poor mental health which impacts on their work engagement, not the
other way around as suggested
- Results as presented are very simplistic - eg. mean EDE-Q scores, no
mention/comparision to normative values for the scale in literature
- Large sample size - significant p values are more likely, but effect size 0.31 is
only small (line 184)
Table 1. would like to see other health variables/confounders included eg.
anxiety, depression 
- lack of detail about regression model, how model built, assumptions, appears
other potential confounders not included eg. anxiety and depression 
- unclear what the results of this study add and why it is significant
- Discussion line 200 contradicts line 223, physical and mental well-being is also
a predictor of work engagement, I suggest these are correlated and reciprocal 
- Line 234 Workplace and eating disorder recovery - first time this is mentioned,
should be included in background if authors suggesting this is the reason why
this study adds something to knowledge about eating disorder recovery
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