JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Mothers’ experiences living with diastasis recti abdominis – an interview study
Version: 1 Date: 02 Oct 2023
Reviewer:  Margaretha Larsson
Reviewer's report:
Comments to the Author
Thank you for the opportunity to read an article in an interesting subject, Mothers’ experiences
living with diastasis recti abdominis – an interview study. A revision of the manuscript can make
the text clearer.
I think the text is wordy, my tip is to write the text straighter and simpler. For ex. Line 51 +
99 +124
Abstract:
• Line 17, the sentence that starts with Knowledge… , the first part of the sentence, is it relevant
in the abstract?
Background:
• The first sentence Is IRD established as common. My tip is that the prevalence of DRA follows,
then what it is and how it can be manage.
• Line 44, This separation, it is unclear that you mean.
• Line 46, the sentence starts with the word Most, and then the word most comes again in the
sentence, it is confusing.
• Line 65-65, unclear sentence.
• Line 58+70, I think references writs Carlstedt et al (13) …. An example of a simple meaning,
Recently have Carlstedt et al (13) provided …
• Line 74-75, unclear sentence.
Method:
• Line 83, the number, what is it?
• Line 89, what do you mean? Purposive sampling, above is the participants described, I think
this information her is confusing. The rest of the sentence, the concept of information power,
what does it means?
• Descriptions of participants, demographic information as health issues/ diseases, you relate to
that in the result.
• What does the analysis result in? I think that in a qualitative design the result is resented in
the method section.
• I miss a description of all authors experiences.
Result:
• Line 129, the word below, means?
• In the text the word mother is used. Do you mean the participants? My tip is, that you use the
mothers, writes in definite form. Many mothers, you have six participants, it is not many. I think
some and several of the mothers is more correct.
• Line 143, Most explained … the sentence is unclear.
• Line 200,  … by most …, unclear.
• Line 238, fourth children, in the method section, participants have 2-3 children, is described.
• Line 239 – 245, maybe you can choose one of the two quotations.
Discussion:
• Line 279, Health literacy, this comes a bit abruptly, how does it relate to the results of the
study? I think it is important with the mother’s health literacy level. Rewrite to make the relation
between this study result and health literacy easier and relevant.
• Line 298-302, + 316, + 351, repeat about health literacy.
• Is there any studies done from physiotherapist perspective related to this phenomenon DRA?
• Line 360 repeat about resilience.
• Line 364, … which our result also indicate, have you done comparison between mothers?
• Line 390, information power, means?
Title: Mothers’ experiences living with diastasis recti abdominis – an interview study
Version: 3 Date: 06 Mar 2024
Reviewer:  Margaretha Larsson
Reviewer's report:
Comments to the Author
Thank you for the opportunity to reread an article in an interesting subject, Mothers’ experiences
living with diastasis recti abdominis – an interview study. The revision of the manuscript has
made the text clearer.  I have only three comment, regarding text added in the revision.
Discussion:
• Line 291- 293, these sentences are added in the revision:  “Women in the present study
experienced relief when provided with a DRA diagnosis even though receiving a diagnosis took
a long time. Previous research shows that how long it takes to get a diagnosis, on average, is
longer for women (26).” These sentences need revision, to be clear and understandable.
Conclusion
• Line 433, this sentence is added: “This caused uncertainties and led the mothers to rely on social
media to obtain relevant information.” Is this a correct conclusion? That these mothers tune to
social media when they not got information from health care professionals, yes that is correct,
but could they obtain relevant information there? My conclusion is that they obtain information
(relevant, not always) and share experiences with other at social media.
• Line 440, this sentence is added: “Furthermore, studies identifying women at risk of developing
DRA could prove to be useful in future preventive clinical tools or guidelines.” That do you
mean?  studies identifying women at risk of developing DRA could prove to be useful in future
preventive clinical tools or guidelines. How can they be useful in a guideline?
Thank you for the opportunity to reread an article in an interesting topic that will add knowledge
within this aria.
Title: Prognostic factors and overall survival of breast cancer in Benin: a hospital-based study
Version: 1 Date: 19 Sep 2023
Reviewer:  Shrikant Pawar
Reviewer's report:
The 319 subjects should be classified with age groups, there can be age variability in
comparisons.
Stage 4 subjects are 21%, there are differences in same sizes?
What is a 0,001 P value? Is it 0.001?
Sample size is very small, they need to be increased to make conclusive statements.
Title: Prognostic factors and overall survival of breast cancer in Benin: a hospital-based study
Version: 1 Date: 30 Sep 2023
Reviewer's report:
A- abstract
1. Method
- change the words (this study) to (the current study)
- Don't use the pronouns and use passive verbs only throughout the manuscript
B- background
- it was no enough and didn't cover the required literature review
C- method
1. Study population
- add the total population of Benin with mentioning the references of that
- were the two mentioned hospitals general hospitals or tertiary centers?
- what were the inclusion criteria?
- move the information about Beninese health system  to the introduction
2. Data collection
- Explain the meaning of ( WHO performance status)
- why the recovery and recurrence were not included in the disease outcome?
D- results
- from 677 patients with breast cancer, you give the reason to exclude only 5 patients, what is
about the test of excluded patients?
- in the second paragraph of the results, you mentioned that 95.3% of patients had no personal or
family history of mastopathy, then you mentioned that 43 had a family history of breast cancer?
Explain that.
- your results showed that 87.1% didn't use oral contraceptive pills, what is about other medical
or herbal contraceptive methods?
- table 2 what did you mean by anterior mastopathy? Also in table 2, one of the reasons of
consultation that was mentioned is an inflammation, what did you mean by that?
- the results lack important prognostic factors which are the histopathological type of breast
cancer and modality of the chemotherapy, why?
- table 2 is too long to be one table, subdivide into multiple tables and write appropriate title
for each new table
- regarding the paragraph entitled (Survival of breast cancer patients in Benin):
1. At the end of paragraph the p- value should be corrected to>0.05, as it was not significant
2. You need to consider and analyse the survival rate and if there was statistical significance
differences and another age cut off (40 years and 50 years at time of diagnosis)
E- discussion
- first paragraph (The objectives of the study were achieved. Indeed, we were able to determine
the), such expression about your work is unpreferrable in scientific manuscript. It is not the job
of the authors to make such judgment. It is the job scientific community.
- regarding the discussion of age of cancer development, you give just one explanation which
was the age spectrum of the studied community and left others risk factors such as physical
inactivity, BMI, genetic factors.. which were not included in the current study? Why?  Explain.
- Despite mentioning that the studied patients had low educational level and may be low income,
you mentioned that Western lifestyle was a risk factor in the studied patients of the current
manuscript? How this is possible?
- lack of the discussion of patients residency that was mentioned in table 1. Also multiple
contents of table 2 , 3 and the figures results were not discussed.
- not all the abbreviations were explained?
F- references
- the updated references are suboptimal
- outdated references are present
Title: Prognostic factors and overall survival of breast cancer in Benin: a hospital-based study
Version: 1 Date: 03 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
General Comments:
A relevant study, especially for resource-limited contexts where cancer in general and breast
cancer in particular is racking up huge numbers. This study sheds light on the situation in the
country, but let's not forget that 77% of the patients studied live in urban areas. In other words,
what is happening in rural areas is a mystery, and the situation could be worse, especially as the
centers specializing in cancer care are not decentralized.
Figure : the figures appear blurred on visual display
Results-Discussion sections
Results: “Of the 319 breast cancer cases included in our study, the majority had no previous
known personal (or family) history of mastopathy (95.3%). Many patients had 4 or more
pregnancies (45.7%), of whom 218 had practiced breastfeeding. Up to 87.1% of patients had
never used oral contraception. Out of 319 patients, 43 had a family history of breast cancer, and
3 had a family history of ovarian cancer”
Discussion: “Patients in our study had a family history of breast cancer in 13.5% of cases. Several
studies have shown that the relative risk of a family history of breast cancer is 1.9 for any form
of relationship. This risk is higher in younger women and when the disease develops in a first-
degree relative before the age of 50”
Discussion: “This young age of breast cancer occurrence in SSA may be more a reflection of
the structure of the African populations (very young with a broad-based age pyramid) than a
real susceptibility.”
Reviewer comment: the author could emphasize the following points in the discussion
- In relation to the results, it seems that the risk factors for breast cancer known in the literature
(lack of breastfeeding, family history, age, use of oral contraceptives, etc.) do not seem to be
associated here with the onset of the disease in Beninese women, but also in African women
in general.
- Rather than the pyramidal structure, it could rather be that black women have unique or specific
risk factors that expose them first to a young age, but also to a disproportionate number of tumors
with a poor prognosis, including hormone receptor-negative, triple-negative and central basal
phenotype tumors (Louise A. Brinton et al; 2014).
The author could also highlight the policy implications of this research:
- It is crucial that research be focused on identifying unique risk factors for breast cancer in
African women in order to have adapted and evidence-based  interventions.
- It is also crucial in these countries to focus on early detection programs, including awareness-
raising, for stage-shifting.
Title: Correlates of intention to screen for cervical cancer among adult women in Kyotera
District, Central Uganda: a community based cross-sectional study.
Version: 1 Date: 22 Feb 2024
Reviewer:  Ali Ssetaala
Reviewer's report:
This is a very well written study of public health importance.
1. Title to include the study design.
2. Abstract- Introduction- Add rationale for the study by replacing some of the less informative
introduction text e.g. first sentence of the introduction.  Results- Include the age range of the
participants. Include values for measures of association (APRs and corresponding 95% CI) in the
results comparing the outcome with other predictors e.g. mode of receipt of health information.
Conclusion: Revisit sentence "Targeting health information sharing via CATs and TV is likely
to reach those with lower screening intentions."  Reason: Health information receipt via CATs
and TV is related to lower prevalence of intention to screen. This result means you will need to
use other modes of health information receipt e.g. social media. Clarify
3. Introduction- Study rationale needs further elaboration i.e. Why did the authors embark on
assessing correlates of intention to screen for CC? Just stating that a few studies have assessed
correlates of intention to screen is not enough.
Kindly state the objectives of the study and the underlying prior hypotheses
4. Methods- Study design and Study setting- Please include the reference to the publication/s
of previous work that the current study is based. I.e. the before and after study to determine the
efficacy of community audio towers (CATs) as a health communication channel.
5. Line 167- Remove the numbers, it looks like a telephone number and not needed there.
6. Statistical analysis- Since you mention clusters in the sample determination, state the unit of
analysis i.e. was it clusters or individuals.
7. Results- State the age range of the participants included in the study.
8. Discussion-Comment on the generalizability of your findings.
9. Strengths and Limitations- "Despite this, some limitations are acknowledged. First, ...." You
mention only one limitation. Revise to say e.g. "A limitation of this study....."  State the impact
of this limitation to your study findings.
10. Conclusion- Reads more like a summary of results and discussion. Have two lines
summarizing key results, then make recommendations for policy, research or programming
based on your results.
Title: Correlates of intention to screen for cervical cancer among adult women in Kyotera
District, Central Uganda: a community based cross-sectional study.
Version: 1 Date: 24 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
General comment: The work is novel and addresses a critical public health problem. I notice the
use of the phrase “cisgender women” in the write-up. However, I find it unnecessary since this
is not a common classification in the setting where the study was conducted since women do
not typically identify themselves as “cisgender” or “transgender”.
Abstract: Generally well-written.  Abbreviations should not be used before being written in full
prior to the abbreviation.  The lack of generalizability although noted as a limitation for the study
need not appear in the abstract.
Background and methods: This is well-written
Results:  The variable “Primary source of Health information” has a total percentage of more than
100. Please revise. The statement on line 196 implies that factors can be independently associated
with a dependent variable at bivariate analysis is inaccurate and should be revised. The variable
numbers according to whether or not there was intention to screen should be indicated in table
1.   These numbers can then be removed from table 2 to make it less crowded and clearer. Also,
the reference groups in table 2 can be marked with odds ratio of 1(one) instead of the word
reference. The legends indicating that p-value is less than 0.05 or 0001 are not necessary since
the p-value is already shown and clearly less than those values.
Discussion; This can be improved. The discussion of the prevalence of intention to screen should
immediately be followed by a discussion of the factors associated with intention to screen. The
factors that are not associated with intention to screen should be discussed last. The opening
statement on the section of limitations implies that they are many but only one is acknowledged.
Conclusion: This needs to be shortened. Only the main findings of the study should be stated
followed by implications on policy.
Title: Correlates of intention to screen for cervical cancer among adult women in Kyotera
District, Central Uganda: a community based cross-sectional study.
Version: 1 Date: 25 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal and offers
a high-quality overview of the topic.
The abstract perfectly summarizes the contents of the manuscript. The methodology is accurate
and conclusions are supported by the data analysis. The tables are clear and interesting.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of high quality, I would suggest taking into
account the following minor recommendations:
- I suggest another round of language revision, to correct a few typos and improve readability.
- I find it interesting to include a reference to the screening programs for early cervical cancer
diagnosis (Golia D'Augè T, Giannini A, Bogani G, Di Dio C, Laganà AS, Di Donato V, Salerno
MG, Caserta D, Chiantera V, Vizza E, Muzii L, D’Oria O. Prevention, Screening, Treatment and
Follow-Up of Gynecological Cancers: State of Art and Future Perspectives. Clin. Exp. Obstet.
Gynecol. 2023, 50(8), 160. https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5008160).
- Inclusion/exclusion criteria should be better clarified by extending their description.
-What is already known on this subject?
-What do the results of this study add?
-What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? It is
important to report the results obtained by the authors in the context of clinical practice and to
adequately highlight what contribution this study adds to the literature already existing on the
topic and to future study perspectives.
- I think that the introduction could be studied in depth. In fact, some aspects should be
highlighted. In particular, the importance of adjuvant vaccination should be discussed in deep
(I suggest these articles to get deeper in the topic PMID: 37978580).
- The authors have not adequately highlighted the strengths and limitations of their study. I
suggest better specifying these points.
Title: Correlates of intention to screen for cervical cancer among adult women in Kyotera
District, Central Uganda: a community based cross-sectional study.
Version: 1 Date: 25 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read the Manuscript titled “Correlates of intention to screen for cervical cancer among adult
cisgender women in Kyotera District, Central Uganda” which falls within the aim of the Journal.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of good quality, I would suggest following
recommendations:
- I suggest a round of language revision, in order to correct few typos and improve readability.
- Considering results of this study, I suggest that authors to add references about recent evidence
of the persistence of HPV infections and factors related. I would be glad if the authors discuss
this important point, referring to PMID: 37401466 and 37747763.
Because of these reasons, the article should be revised and completed. Considering all these
points, I think it could be of interest to the readers and, in my opinion, it deserves the priority
to be published after minor revisions.
Title: The impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual function in female patients being treated for
idiopathic overactive bladder: a systematic review
Version: 2 Date: 20 Apr 2023
Reviewer:  Angie Rantell
Reviewer's report:
Thank you very much for submitting this interesting review on a very important topic.
whilst i do not have any specific comments regarding the methods of the process, i would like to
see some more discussion regarding the limitations of the current tools that are being used.  for
example you did not talk about the time frames for sexual activity ie FSFI - is only for people
who have been SA in the last four weeks.  You have also not defined sexual activity or variations
in what that may involve and why the current tools may not capture real world data eg for those
in same sex relations or those who are sexually active without a partner etc.
Title: The impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual function in female patients being treated for
idiopathic overactive bladder: a systematic review
Version: 2 Date: 26 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
This systematic review evaluates the impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual function in female
patients being treated for idiopathic overactive bladder.
My comments are as follows:
The introduction is too long.
What did this study add to our knowledge?
The search date should be updated.
All abbreviations should be described for the first time.
Why did not you perform a meta-analysis?
Specify all databases, registers, websites, organizations, reference lists, and other sources
searched or consulted to identify studies. Specify the date when each source was last searched
or consulted.
Present the full search strategies for all databases, registers, and websites, including any filters
and limits used.
The main findings of the study should be mentioned in the first paragraph of the discussion.
All abbreviations that were used for figures, should be mentioned in the legend of study.
Title: The impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual function in female patients being treated for
idiopathic overactive bladder: a systematic review
Version: 2 Date: 29 Feb 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the Manuscript titled “The impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual
function in female patients being treated for idiopathic overactive bladder: a systematic review.
“.  In my opinion, this topic analyzed is interesting enough to attract readers’ attention.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of good quality, I would suggest following
recommendations:
- I suggest a round of language revision, in order to correct few typos and improve readability.
- It would be interesting to add few lines about current evidence about this topic and various
possible therapeutic strategies. I would be glad if the authors discuss this important point,
referring to PMID: 28490209 and 32744453.
Because of these reasons, the article should be revised and completed. Considering all these
points, I think it could be of interest to the readers and, in my opinion, it deserves the priority
to be published after minor revisions.
Title: The impact of pharmacotherapy on sexual function in female patients being treated for
idiopathic overactive bladder: a systematic review
Version: 4 Date: 12 Apr 2024
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for going through the manuscript and the reviewers' points
In my honest opinion, the authors have responded satisfactorily to the reviewers’ criticisms.
The manuscript is well written and falls within the aim of this Journal.
Title: Knowledge and attitude of spouses of puerperas towards breastfeeding
Version: 0 Date: 05 Jan 2024
Reviewer:  Adenike Ayobola Olaogun
Reviewer's report:
Comments - Knowledge and attitude of spouses of puerperas towards breastfeeding
Results
Table 1- General information of spouses, parturients, and infants- Please be consistent with use
of puerperas. Change parturients to puerperas
Table 2- the top row has – No 64    31.4 - Change and be consistent with table 1- Case(n)
Percentage (%)
Discussion
4.2 Spouses' attitude towards infant feeding
Line 2- This is similar to 59.14 of Su et al.,[27] 62 of Mitchell-Box et al.,[28] 62.70 ± 6.74 of
Yu et al.,[29] and 56.16 ± 4.89 of Cheng et al ( For Consistency put the mean and SD)
Line 3-  on 88 puerperas 2 weeks after delivery showed ( Reframe sentence to  read- Eighty
eight puerperas who were two weeks post -delivery showed…..
Conclusion in the abstract and in the text- should reflect the results reported-
Generalized linear model analysis showed a more positive attitude (higher score) among spousal
attitudes towards infant feeding in those who had received breastfeeding education [# = 2.045,
95% CI (0.322 ~ 3.768)] and those with a master’s degree or above [# = 5.252, 95% CI (2.739
 ~ 7.765); # = 6.439, 95% CI (3.495 ~ 9.383)].
Reframe to read-
Spouses that received breastfeeding education and those that had a Masters Degree and above
had more positive attitude towards infant feeding. (2) Medical staff should focus on puerperas’
spouses with degrees below master’s level who had not received breastfeeding education. We
recommend using a variety of education methods to enable them to acquire more knowledge
on breastfeeding and develop a more positive attitude towards breastfeeding, which will further
enhance spousal support for breastfeeding, thus positivizing postpartum co-parenting attitudes
and improving the rate of exclusive breastfeeding.
References-
Breastfeeding is a highly researched and documented area. Twenty of the references are articles
published between 1999 – 2017.  Please, the authors should use more recent references.