Reviewer’ s report
Title: Intimate Partner Violence and Nutritional Status among Nepalese Women: An Investigation
of Associations
Version: 0Date: 08 Jun 2019
Reviewer: Sudhamshu Dahal
Reviewer's report:
The article is well constructed and it has a potential to draw further studies on the area open by the
authors however the authors' claim that "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study toexplore association between IPV and nutrition in Nepal and only the third to do so ever using datafrom South Asia"(line: 210&211) is simple assertion without substantial literature review. Thereviewer would like to least the following publication which would have direct and significantlinkage to the interpretation claimed by the authors. Reviewer suggests to incorporate thesearticles to substantiate the claim forwarded by the authors.1. Elisabete P. Silva, Andrea Lemos,Carlos H.S. Andrade, Ana B. LudermirIntimate partner violence during pregnancy and behavioralproblems in children and adolescents: a meta‐analysisJornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português),Volume 94, Issue 5, September-October 2018, Pages 471-4822. Oshiro, A., Poudyal, A. K.,Poudel, K. C., Jimba, M., & Hokama, T. (2011). Intimate partner violence among general andurban poor populations in kathmandu, nepal. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(10), 2073-2092. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605103729443. Clark, C. J., Ferguson, G., Shrestha, B.,Shrestha, P. N., Oakes, J. M., Gupta, J., …Yount, K. M. (2018). Social norms and women's risk of
intimate partner violence in Nepal. Social Science and Medicine, 202(February), 162-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.017
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