Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Investigating the status of marital burnout and related factors in married
women referred to health centers
Version: 
1 
Date: 
03 Nov 2020
Reviewer's report:
Consider changing "creating" in abstract line 27.
Please replace "couple burnout" from keywords as the study only included
women burnout.
Remove of from "The term of" in background line 51
Please add reference in line 54 for line "but nowadays it can affect everybody
and is used by everyone from celebrities to housewives."
Confirm the use of word "scope" in line 55.
Line 56 is finishing abruptly and no continuation with the next line.
Line 70 lethargic word is repeated.
Line 75 you cannot discuss your findings in the introduction of the study.
Reframe Line 80 and 81.
Add reference for "The reason for the higher levels of burnout in women is that
women start their marriage with higher expectations than men do. Line 84 and
85
Kindly reframe the hypothesis sentence. Suggestion "The research hypothesis
was that the demographic factors affect the marital burnout among married
women."
Is the scale used of marital burnout is PAINS and not PEENS. Please check in
Line 116.
Line 145 please correct between 31 and 31 years old to 31 and 40 years.
In discussion, it would be more esthetic if we refer all the studies reporting
similar results in one line rather writing the same findings of other studies in
different sentences.
For example: The results of the present study showed that total marital burnout
and subscales of somatic, emotional, and psychological burnout in women were
relatively high. The Alsawalqa's study results showed that the rate of marital
burnout in couples is high [25]. According to Ahrari's study results, marital
burnout was high among couples referring to health centers, and women were
more likely to be burnout than men [26]. In a study conducted by Pines, marital
burnout was significantly higher in women than in men [4]. The results of other
studies also showed that the rate of marital burnout in women was significantly
higher than men [15, 16].
In the above para, your study, study by Pines [4] and other study [15, 16] saying
the same thing. So simply write that these studies are in concurrence with your
findings. Same can be done in later part of the discussion.
Reference for Line 191 and 192.
In the below paragraph the author present the relation of duration of marriage
and burnout, however trying to support this finding with the studies showing
relation of marriage satisfaction and duration of marriage. In addition, nowhere
above this para, author has talked about the marital satisfaction and burnout can
be used interchangeably or have positive relation.
In our study, there was a significant relationship between the duration of
marriage with total marital burnout, and somatic burnout. This means that with
the increasing duration of marriage, the couples' burnout increased. The results
of the Alsawalqa study also showed that marital burnout increased with the
increasing duration of marriage [25]. Contrary to the results of the present study,
the Allendorf's study results in Nepal and the results of Bulgan's study in Turkey
showed that marriage satisfaction increases with the duration of marriage
In the conclusion what do the authors mean when they say "According to the
results of this study, the status of marital burnout in women is not relatively
appropriate"
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