Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Predictors of postpartum family planning in Rwanda: The influence of
male involvement and healthcare experience
Version: 
1 
Date: 
30 Sep 2020
Reviewer: 
Longla Acheliu
Reviewer's report:
Generally, the corrections that were made have improved the quality of the work
but a lot of revisions are still required for the work to be accepted. Some of these
corrections are highlighted below. 
Abstract- mention the type of bivariate analysis that was done in the methods
section
- in the results section, you mentioned that Long antenatal care wait time (p=
<0.01) and reporting a partner 46 (male) as the healthcare decision-maker
(p=0.04) were associated with PPFP uptake. Will I be correct to say that long
antenatal care wait time is associated with the uptake of PPFP?
Methods - definition of the study variables are still not clear in this section.
Please state and define (e.g. quality of care) them
- you stated that you controlled for confounders using logistic regression. Firstly
there are two types of logistic regression; simple and multiple so which one did
you use because from your results only simple logistic regression was done
which is not same as controlling for confounders. Secondly, what did you control
for?
Results - The presentation is not really orderly. Typically the sociodemographic
and other characteristics of the respondents come first, then followed by the
prevalence of PPFP uptake, bivariate and finally multivariate analysis. Also,
results of X2 test could be presented by differentiating the proportion of those
who used PPFP from those who did not for each predictor variable, along with
their p-values. No odds ratios were shown on the tables though you used logistic
regression. Lastly, I did not see any table on multivariate analysis
Discussion- has to be organized according to the 
objectives of the study.
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