Title: Assessment of Domestic Violence and its associated factors among ever- married
reproductive-age Women in Cameroon: A cross-sectional survey
Version: 4 Date: 05 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
Hi dear editor in the chief journal of BMC Women's Health
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to cooperate with your esteemed journal as a reviewer.
Comments on an article entitled " Assessment of Domestic Violence and its associated factors
among ever-married reproductive- age Women in Cameroon: A cross-sectional survey" was
written below.
Best regards,
Abstract
1- In methods, please write the study design and sample size, and the setting where sampling
had been carried out.
2- The statistical software for analyzing and its version should be added.
3- In the results, " The mean age of the participants was 31.3 (± 8.4) years", please write "the
mean± standard deviation (SD) of..."
4-In the results ". The prevalence of domestic violence among", domestic violence replace with
DV. Also in other sections of this manuscript please use the abbreviation form of it.
5-In the results, please add the p-value of the associated factors of DV.
6- In keywords, "ever-married women" is not extracted through the MeSH strategy. Change it.
Introduction
7- In the introduction, you write the associated factors of DV based on the previous studies which
are similar to your study results. Why you did do this study? Your study subject was carried out
in previous studies. So please write your reason for performing this issue again.
8- In the last paragraph of the introduction you wrote "there are no studies conducted on the
assessment of domestic violence in Cameroon", but in the rapid search process, I found a study
entitled "Domestic violence and its impact on women in Buea Municipality, the southwest region
of Cameroon". Please explain the necessity of your research again and strongly.
Methods
9- In the first paragraph of methods, why did you delete the study design? The sampling methods
and sampling process should be explained in detail.
10- It is not routine to write the variables with separate headings. You can explain them in the
section of the demographic questionnaire.
11- In the section on operational definition, please add a reference for the definition of domestic
violence.
12- Why do you use the repetitive reference for the definition of all the violence types? Please
use other related references.
13- Why you did not explain the questionnaires of your research? How do you measure the
domestic violence in the participants?
Results:
14- If you calculate the response rate of participants, please add in the first paragraph of the
results.
15- In table 1, please write "age groups" instead of "age". For "religion, Husband drinks alcohol,
and Region where the respondent resides" variables, please merge the rows such as other
variables of the table.
16- In "Factors associated with domestic violence", for each variable, please add the p-value
after the confidence interval in the parenthesis. For example: Yaoundé (AOR=1.72. 95% CI
(1.18, 2.50), p<….).
17- In table 2, what is the reference group for each variable? Also, the # value is not reported
in your table.
Discussion
18- In the discussion, it is not common to write the statistical values such as confidence interval.
19- The sentence "The current study's findings are lower than those of a previous study in
Fagitalekoma" is not written in the correct format. You can write "The prevalence of DV in this
study was significantly lower than those of a previous study in Fagitalekoma,…………."
References
20- Please check all of the references to certain that are complete regarding bibliographic
information.