JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: The comparison of sexual function in types I and II of Female Genital Mutilation
Version: 2 Date: 23 Jun 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you providing me with the opportunity to read this work. Your manuscript need more
work. This article has the problems mentioned below.
Overall, the ENTIRE of your manuscript needs scientific editing.
Title:
Considering that many evidences have confirmed the negative effect of female circumcision on
sexual function, I suggest that the focus of the study and the title be on the comparison of sexual
function in two types of circumcision.
Abstract:
“FGM/C characteristics and FSFI” , “ FGM/C/C “ , Abbreviations should not be used in the
abstract.
Introduction:
Provide more explanation about the female circumcision status in different provinces of Iran.
Provide more explanation about the incidence of different types of FGM and related sexual
function.
Provide more explanation about the novelty of the study.
Materials and Methods:
How would you determine the absence of social harm?
How could women specify their type of circumcision? Questionnaire or Examination?
Use subscale instead of “sub-categories”.
Use “intracluster correlation coefficient” instead of “inter-branch correlation coefficient”.
What about the cut of points of FSFI subscales? Reference?
Results:
How could the mother understand the use of disinfectant?
“ The disinfectant was used during genital mutilation in 86.8%. Using the disinfectant was
reported in 86% of circumcised women during the FGM/C” repeated?
What is the difference between tradition and chastity?
Use "subscale" instead of "sub-sections".
Table 4: Please check the cutoff points of the FSFI subscales.
Discussion:
The discussion is weak and superficial and needs more work.
Please edit: “In this study, to achieve the aim of the research "investigating the Characteristics
of Female genital mutilation and Sexual Function of circumcised women in Sardasht (Iran) in
2023,” 197 women have been investigated."
“domains in the vital study (6)” ?!
“…sexual health status of the wife. (Akhavan Akbari)”?!
Title: The comparison of sexual function in types I and II of Female Genital Mutilation
Version: 2 Date: 03 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review: Characteristics of Female genital mutilation and Sexual
Function among Circumcised women in Sardasht (Iran) in 2023.
That being said, I wish the authors good luck with their publication and would like to wish the
Persian women and men good luck in these difficult times.
Abstract / Background (Lines 43-44)
The sentence "The present study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of Female
genital mutilation and Sexual Function among circumcised women in Sardasht City in Iran"
could be rephrased to include the specific research objective more explicitly, for example: "The
present study aimed to examine the relationship between Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(FGM/C) and Sexual Function among circumcised women in Sardasht City, Iran."
Introduction (Lines 92-95)
Although the prevalence of female genital mutilation in specific regions of Iran has been
acknowledged, there is a lack of information regarding its global prevalence. Therefore, it is
recommended to incorporate data on its prevalence worldwide before delving into its occurrence
in Iran. For example: Al Awar S, Al-Jefout M, Osman N, Balayah Z, Al Kindi N, Ucenic T.
Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/
C) among United Arab Emirates population. BMC women's health. 2020 Dec;20(1):1-2.
Materials and Methods (Line 117)
"It is recommended to include the time interval related to the collection of samples, for example,
from March to June 2023 ".
Considering the prevalence of female genital mutilation and its adverse effects, it is imperative
to initiate cultural improvements through education and awareness. By educating and raising
awareness among individuals about this issue, we can foster positive changes and address the
problem effectively.
Title: The comparison of sexual function in types I and II of Female Genital Mutilation
Version: 4 Date: 09 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review: Characteristics of Female genital mutilation and Sexual
Function among Circumcised Women in Sardasht (Iran) in 2023.
That being said, I wish the authors good luck with their publication and would like to wish the
Persian women and men good luck in these difficult times.
Abstract / Background (Lines 43-44)
The sentence "The present study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of Female
genital mutilation and Sexual Function among circumcised women in Sardasht City in Iran"
could be rephrased to include the specific research objective more explicitly, for example: "The
present study aimed to examine the relationship between Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(FGM/C) and Sexual Function among circumcised women in Sardasht City, Iran."
Introduction (Lines 92-95)
Although the prevalence of female genital mutilation in specific regions of Iran has been
acknowledged, there is a lack of information regarding its global prevalence. Therefore, it is
recommended to incorporate data on its prevalence worldwide before delving into its occurrence
in Iran. For example Al Awar S, Al-Jefout M, Osman N, Balayah Z, Al Kindi N, Ucenic T.
Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/
C) among United Arab Emirates population. BMC women's health. 2020 Dec;20(1):1-2.
Materials and Methods (Line 117)
"It is recommended to include the time interval related to the collection of samples, for example,
from March to June 2023 ".
Considering the prevalence of female genital mutilation and its adverse effects, it is imperative
to initiate cultural improvements through education and awareness. By educating and raising
awareness among individuals about this issue, we can foster positive changes and address the
problem effectively.
Title: The comparison of sexual function in types I and II of Female Genital Mutilation
Version: 4 Date: 13 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to read the revised work. Your manuscript still
needs more work. The problems are mentioned below.
Title:
“The comparison of sexual function in types I and II of Female Genital Mutilation” is suggested.
Introduction:
There is still no mention of the prevalence of female circumcision in other provinces of Iran.
Methods:
“ …, No history of…, “ no history…
Explain the cut-off point of sexual function subscales in the methodology.
Results:
Again, How could the woman understand the use of disinfectant?!!  If you do not have reliable
information about this, delete it.
In Table 2, the meaning of tradition and chastity is still unclear. Does chastity have no traditional
reasons?
Remove tables 2, 3, and 4 and only refer to them in the results.
Considering that in Table 1 there are information about spouse's job and education, contraceptive
method, etc., they need to be mentioned in the results and discussion.
Providing information about the number of deliveries in Table 1 can be reduced to nulliparous,
#2 and #3.
It would have been better if you had compared the demographic information in the two groups
of circumcision.
Mention the statistical test below in Table 5.
Discussion:
The discussion is still weak and superficial and needs rerevision.
At the beginning of the discussion, the purpose and main results of the study should be explained.
How did you identify the current positive attitude towards FGM? No reference is provided.
The Sunni religion is not clear to the non-Muslim reader. If it is necessary to mention it, it is
better to explain it a little more.
The names of many authors are mentioned in the discussion and the results are consistent
with this article and not with another. In the discussion, you should point out what effects the
difference between the two types of circumcision have on the differences in the results of sexual
performance and its dimensions.
Title: Comparison of physical activity levels and dietary habits between women with polycystic
ovarian syndrome and healthy controls of reproductive age: A case-control study
Version: 1 Date: 25 Sep 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear author
1. Please add the way of collecting this information in the method section. Has the information
been extracted from people's files? Have people completed a questionnaire themselves? Or did
the researcher record the data? (Information about nutrition and physical activity).
2. Please add one paragraph in the discussion section about ," in effectualness of carbohydrate
consumption on the occurrence of polycystic ovary syndrome "
Title: Comparison of physical activity levels and dietary habits between women with polycystic
ovarian syndrome and healthy controls of reproductive age: A case-control study
Version: 1 Date: 04 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear Authors
Thank you for your scientific efforts.  I read the manuscript entitled “Comparison of physical
activity levels and dietary habits between women with polycystic ovarian syndrome and healthy
controls of reproductive age: A case-control study” with full interest. It should be mentioned
that it is a valuable manuscript; however, some issues are unclear and should be completed or
explained more. Below are the comments on this manuscript.
Abstract
-Results: Line 6: Similarly, food nutrients with a low glycemic load (GL#10) can lower PCOS
occurrence by OR=1.60. According to the following:
Glycemic Load in the case and control group was 15.23 vs. 17.27. How can the probability of
PCOS occurrence be reduced with the consumption of food low glycemic load?
-Please revise the conclusion section based on the answer to this question.
Background
This section is well written.
Methods
-Please draw a flowchart of observational studies based on the Strobe checklist
-Please write the sample size formula.
Sampling technique
-Consent withdrawal from 2 cases and 9 controls should be added to the final estimation (final
sample size 137 rather than 115).
-Out of the total of 115 people, on what basis are 49 people considered in the case group and
the rest in the control group?
-What is the waist-to-hip ratio (W/H in kg/m2)? W/H in kg/m2 seems incorrect.
-Please attach your structured food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) as a supplementary file.
- Did you enter the confounding variable in the model for tales 3 and 5?
Results
Binary logistic regression analysis showed that food with a low glycemic index (GI#40) reduced
the odds of PCOS (OR=1.944). Similarly, food nutrients with a low glycemic load (GL#10) can
lower PCOS occurrence (OR=1.60), as shown in Table 5. But based on this table the odds of
PCOS 90%, 60 % has been increased. Please reanalyze.
-Glycemic Load in the case and control group was 15.23 vs. 17.27. How can the probability of
PCOS occurrence be reduced with the consumption of food low glycemic load?
Discussion
This sentence seems to be modified: The comparison showed that moderate physical activity
levels can have 6.8 times the preventive actions on PCOS occurrence. A further increase in daily
physical activity can enhance these preventive actions by 12-fold, as shown in Table 3.
Low moderate physical activity levels increased 6.8 times the odds of PCOS occurrence in the
case group compared to controls. …..
- It should be noted that the high amount of consumed vitamins, polyunsaturated fat, and
cholesterol can result from a high intake of total energy. Please mention this in the discussion.
Conclusion
In line 3: PCOS women had a low intake of vitamins. But except for Vitamin E (mg), the intake
of other vitamins in the case group was higher than the control group.  Please check it again.
Thank you
Title: Quality of life among French breast cancer survivors in comparison with cancer-free
women: The Seintinelles study
Version: 1 Date: 12 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank You for allowing the work to be reviewed. the following should be considered and revised
adequately;
1. Critically looking at the objectives that authors set out to do; which is
1a. to assess and investigate whether differences in HRQoL scores exist between the two groups
of participants (BCSs and CFWs); and
ii) to identify the determinants of WHOQOL-BREF domains in each group separately, among
several factors including sociodemographic and health-related factors, current lifestyle habits,
and scores of personal locus of control, coping, and health literacy.
This should be addressed in the same line from the presentation of findings of the study first to
assess differences in HRQol and secondly to investigate the differences in the scores existing
between the 2 groups of participants. This will clearly address the objectives of the study.
Now the Table 1, which is the psychometric scales scores of BCS and CFW, which of the
objectives is this addressing?
1b. Compare same for the objective 2 and ensure that your findings clearly address the
determinants of WHOQOL-BREF domains in each group.
2a. In the same light, the discussion must also be done in the same domain using the objectives
set out to do and ensure that the study addresses the objectives.
It appears that the authors concludes on the association between HL and HRQoL on line
441 to 445. It does NOT however appear that the per the findings the conclusion that health
professionals having an important role to play is holistic. This must be relooled at.
Title: Quality of life among French breast cancer survivors in comparison with cancer-free
women: The Seintinelles study
Version: 1 Date: 13 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity you provided me to review the manuscript entitled "Quality of life
among French breast cancer survivors in comparison with cancer-free women: The sientinelles
study". The work seems unfinished so far and need some major revisions and attention to details
to become acceptable for publishing.
• Abstract
1- In methods you should explain about time period of the data collection.
2- Which software have you used for data analysis?
3- Set key-words based on MeSH.
• Methods
1- Do you have any exclusion criteria for participant recruitment?
2- Please report this information about all of the questionnaires: 1) Cronbach's alpha coefficients
for questionnaire and its subscales in your study, and  2) its main reliability and validity.
• Results
1- Where is Table 1?
2- Please remove duplicate information reported in tables from manuscript.
• Discussion
1- In the discussion perhaps it is missing to indicate future lines of research.
Title: Thrombosis of acute superior mesenteric artery in a patient with breast cancer receiving
toremifene therapy: a case report and literature review
Version: 2 Date: 11 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
The paper “Thrombosis of acute superior mesenteric artery in a patient with breast cancer
receiving toremifene therapy: a case report and literature review” is written clearly, concisely,
without superfluous details. This is a case report of a breast cancer patient treated with
SERMs (toremifene) who was previously treated with chemotherapy (TC) and developed arterial
thrombosis during toremifene therapy.
Nevertheless, when critically observing the case presentations, we must keep in mind several
facts, which are also presented in the BMC publication policy (Case reports submitted to BMC
Women's Health should make a contribution to medical knowledge and must have educational
value or highlight the need for a change in clinical practice or diagnostic/prognostic approaches).
In this case, although it might seem different at first glance, none of the above mentioned criteria
is met.
The work has no additional educational value, it does not contribute to the existing medical
knowledge because it considers already well established and established facts. No conclusion
can be drawn from the work that would change existing therapeutic concepts.
1. The diagnosis of a malignant disease in itself represents a hypercoagulable state, regardless
of all other existing clinical elements (age, sex, hormonal status, degree of mobility/
immobilization, use of other drugs, hemostasis pathology, CV pathology, etc.)
2. Treatment with hormone therapy (which includes SERMs) is associated with an increased
risk of thrombosis (venous and, of course, less often arterial), which is a very well-known fact.
3. It is unclear how (and whether) previous administration of chemotherapy (AC) additionally
contributed to the risk of thrombosis, especially in the case of combination with SERMs.
4. No additional specific coagulation or molecular tests were performed on the patient in
order to differentially and diagnostically remove other, possible reasons for the occurrence of
thrombosis.
5. It is impossible to connect individual isolated cases with a specific serious adverse event
(SAE) and based on that to present the entire conclusion or make a decision to stop treatment
with a certain drug (which the authors suggest). For such decisions, it is necessary to conduct
large, multicenter, randomized studies. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of possible factors
that influence the possible development of embolism besides the use of SERMs.
Finally, the paper is interesting, it describes the complications and events that are expected in
the treatment of oncology patients, and it can be presented in a professional magazine or at
a congress as an interesting case of treatment complications, but apart from that, it does not
bring anything new. Neither scientific, nor educational, nor medical, nor does it change existing
treatment paradigms.
Thank you.
Title: A postpartum functional assessment tool for women based on the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Version: 3 Date: 12 Dec 2023
Reviewer:  Eric Lawer Torgbenu
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review the revised version of this manuscript. I appreciate
the efforts authors have made in revising this manuscript. However, I have made some few
suggestions for considerations.
1. I would appreciate authors indicate pages and lines where these changes were incorporated
into the revised manuscript.
2. For instance, if city of experts was not selected apriori, then I would be expecting to see
authors indicate this explicitly in the manuscript.
3. Are authors implying that 15 experts were invited and all 15 agreed to participate?
4. If the tables could not be embedded in the main description, then it would be better to use
supplementary tables instead.
5. In attempt to revise the manuscript, some mistakes were introduced. Could authors consider
proof editing the entire manuscript for clarity of sentences.
Title: A postpartum functional assessment tool for women based on the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Version: 3 Date: 18 Dec 2023
Reviewer's report:
The paper is improved, but there are still some comments to highlight:
Under: Screening and establishment of the ICF item pool and development of the initial
questionnaire.
-There is a need to be more clear how the questionnarie was developed. The first sentence might
be written as follow:
Based on a) literature retrieval, b) clinical investigation, and c) reference to relevant literature
[17], this study initially constructed the item pool of postpartum functional assessment for
women based on ICF model.
Use the same words when explaining how the different parts have been done, and also add
something about Reference to relevant literature. End that part to tell readers how many items
there were.
a) Information retrieval instead write Literature retrieval:......
b) Clinical research instead write Clinical investigation:......
c) Reference to relevant literature: here write some sentences in releation to the study in Brazil,
Which items were used for example?
-According to the results of previous research... which previous research, must be more clear?
Under: Basic information of experts
- Among the 15 experts, there were 3 males and 9 females, it should be 3 males and 12 females
- Among them, thirteen (it should be 8) experts had more than 20 years of working experience,
and 5 experts had more than 30 years of working experience,
Under: Discussion
A total of 69 items were preliminarily established in this study, including 32 physical function
items (it should be body function items, must also be changed in the abstract), 12 body structure
items
Title: Applying the structural equation model approach to study the simultaneous relationship
between women’s empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt
Version: 1 Date: 18 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity you provided me to review this manuscript. Please note these
points in order to enrich the article:
1- In the abstract section, which software have you used for data analysis? Please name it.
2- It is recommended to restate the results section with figures and numbers.
3- Set key-words based on MeSH.
4- The Background section was not easy to follow. You have a way too long introduction. Focus
on what you want to look into.
Title: Applying the structural equation model approach to study the simultaneous relationship
between women’s empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt
Version: 1 Date: 19 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author,
I appreciate your contribution and the importance of the issue at hand, but a few improvements
are required in the manuscript to improve its quality.
Overall it's a fine, concise, and well-written manuscript. The introduction is relevant, but
it is too descriptive and basic. The theory and theoretical framework are missing in this
paper. Sufficient information has been provided about the background, but the point needs
to be further strengthened, which is why this study is needed. It replicates previous studies,
especially one referred to by some Indian authors. The method is steadfast but elaborates the
inclusion-exclusion criterion further and mentions some details of the respondents chosen for
this study. Further information is required regarding the extraction of questions for Women's
empowerment. Did you take all the questions available in the survey, or did you choose from
the pool? Regarding results, an important contribution is present in the form of psychometric
properties of the scales, but I am confused about the EFA and CFA. In already collected data,
how could you conduct EFA? The discussion is oversimplified. Strengthen your argument with
theoretical support and relevant literature.
Title: Applying the structural equation model approach to study the simultaneous relationship
between women’s empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt
Version: 3 Date: 04 Oct 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear Authors,
I appreciate your time and energy in addressing the issues/comments highlighted in the 1st
review. I wish to add further that please make the abstract more catchy. For instance, the purpose
is written in a monotonous tone. You may revise it and make it more precise and meaningful.
Rest, I find the paper now suitable for publication.
I wish you good luck!
Title: Applying the structural equation model approach to study the simultaneous relationship
between women’s empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt
Version: 5 Date: 14 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear author,
I am concerned about the word used in the title and manuscript "simultaneous".  Can you please
replace it with more scientific and statistical words? Another important thing is your conceptual
framework: in the text, it is written as a theoretical frame, please change it. The drawing of
the conceptual framework also needs to be revisited. The demographic variables are pointed
towards the main study variables? Have you regress them on the main variables or otherwise?
please revise your conceptual framework carefully.