JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: Comparing the clinical efficacy of three surgical methods for cesarean scar pregnancy
Version: 0 Date: 18 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal. In my honest
opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Nevertheless, authors
should clarify some points and improve the discussion. Authors should consider the following
recommendations:
- Manuscript should be further revised in order to correct some typos and improve style
- specify what type of hysteroscope you used and compare your method with the combined use
of mtx with office hysteroscopy referring to PMID: 33922785
Title: Comparing the clinical efficacy of three surgical methods for cesarean scar pregnancy
Version: 0 Date: 17 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
The scientific work presented is a well-structured and comprehensive research study in
describing the methods employed and the results obtained. The authors considered a large
sample and divided the patients into well-defined groups based on the type of treatment used
for Cesarean Scar Pregnancy (CSP).
Moreover, the process of diagnosing CSP is described in a clear and detailed manner, which is
crucial to ensure the correct identification of the cases to be studied. The results obtained were
subjected to appropriate statistical analysis, and the data were presented clearly and precisely.
However, as with any scientific study, there are some limitations to consider. For instance,
there is no mention of long-term patient follow-up, particularly regarding the possibility of a
new pregnancy and its outcome. Additionally, the authors do not provide information regarding
patient selection in the different treatment groups and whether there were significant differences
in terms of clinical characteristics between the groups.
Notwithstanding these limitations, this study appears to provide valuable information on CSP
treatment and could represent an important starting point for further research on the same topic.
Title: Exploring Diagnosis and Treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder in the U.S.
Healthcare System: A Qualitative Investigation
Version: 1 Date: 13 Mar 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review the manuscript “Exploring Diagnosis and Treatment of
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder in the U.S. Healthcare System: A Qualitative Investigation.”
This is an original research article that utilized qualitative methods, conducting 32 in depth
interviews with PMDD patients on their experiences with diagnosis and treatment; thematic
analysis identified patient, provider, and societal barriers. This is an interesting and well-written
article on an important, understudied topic. Please see detailed comments below.
• P10: When describing patient experiences, I might phrase it as “participants reported that their
providers did not think it was real,” as we don’t know directly whether the providers thought
it was real or not.
• P13: I thought that the statement that “SSRIs were described as easily prescribed due to the
assumption that PMDD patients are merely depressed.” SSRIs are an appropriate medication
to prescribe, as they are the recommended first-line treatment for PMDD. They are also the
first-line treatment for major depression. I think there is a subtle difference between dismissing
PMDD sufferers as being “merely depressed,” versus choosing an appropriate first line treatment
for PMDD. I.e. is it the patient’s perception that an SSRI would not be an appropriate first-line
treatment, even though it is? Perhaps the authors can clarify.
• P13: Similarly, referring to hormonal birth control or SSRIs as “sideways treatments” that do
not specifically address PMDD. These medications do address PMDD, they are the first-line
treatments for it.
• Discussion: The authors on p11 describe PMDD patients’ experiences with specific
provider types, e.g. gynecologists. In the Discussion, they might mention how this fits
with other research in the area, e.g. “Patient Experiences of Health Care Providers in
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Examining the Role of Provider Specialty,” https://
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33978482/.
Title: Rural-Urban Disparities in Preventive Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among
Women with Early-Onset Dementia
Version: 2 Date: 03 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
The authors present a compelling argument about the relationship between ADRD and breast
and cervical cancer screening for women in the US. Their main findings describe significant
differences among women with and without ADRD and variation by rural/urban residence. As
hypothesized, those with ADRD may be less likely to comply with recommended screenings.
That said, the manuscript could be improved with by addressing the following:
1. In the introduction, p. 4, line 63, are their end-of-life expenditures due to cancer? Or ADRD?
The argument to associate the two seems weak. If that is the reasoning, why not study stage of
diagnosis for those with and without ADRD rather than screening?
2. Why use this database rather than nationally representative datasets like NHIS, BRFSS, etc.?
3. Is there bias in the data for commercially insured individuals as opposed to the uninsured or
those that rely on Medicaid/Medicare? Again, if the sample was nationally representative the
findings would appear stronger.
4. The IRB approval number should be noted in the methods.
5. Greater detail should be included as to how the authors defined rural. Were they RUCA codes?
What is defined as metro v. non-metro?
6. Rural/urban differences in screening rates are well documented in the literature. Apart from
considering ADRD, how does this vary from what we already know? What about other comorbid
conditions that would impact screening?
7. Given the large sample size and the ORs, how do you assure the reader that these associations
are not random or simply repeating what is already known about screening differences among
women in rural v. urban areas.
Title: Rural-Urban Disparities in Preventive Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among
Women with Early-Onset Dementia
Version: 3 Date: 21 Mar 2023
Reviewer:  Anne Marie Mccarthy
Reviewer's report:
The Reviewers have properly addressed my concerns, adding more context and complexity
regarding screening for women with ADRDs. I like the idea of promoting shared decision
making surrounding cancer screening.
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 13 Nov 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors i would like to say thanks for your nice selection of this important topic.
The reviewing report could consist of the highlighted points please read it carefully and respond
regarding to these notes :
1.The title devoid from any sign to the region of this study and also should include the study
type to be more relevant and convinent to the reader as this title wasn't reflected by abstract .
Sample age range should be written in the abstract also.with thier Gestational period. i.e
"Across sectional study;Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association
with Preventive Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian young age Pregnant Women".
2. Introduction section was very long details so I advice to summarize these facts for explination
the importance of study questions and it should be supported by other Iranian articles that bear
smillar data or raw data beneficial to these aims.
3. Methodology section was well written and include all criteria starting from sample size and
ending with thier statistical test and thier measured.
But I advice to arrange the inclusion and exclusion criteria in table to clarify thier reading simply.
4. Results section also fortunately design to express the study results but I prefer to display these
results in figures to be more clear and easy to follow by readers ..
5. Discussion sections:
It was really fully adjusted to answer the question of the study carefully by tackling all aspects
that explain thier results.
Limitation of study included but the further lines not discussed to be relevant for replication in
other study style for future studies .
6. References
It was abroad collection of sources that build up these study but it was alsob lacked from other
Iranian similar or close to these study ...
Kind regards
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 18 Nov 2022
Reviewer:  Taqi Tahir
Reviewer's report:
very good article, written in good English language with very few grammatical mistakes. An
important subject in health sciences.
The abstract was inclusive and summarized the details of the paper. Just move the sentence (It
has been observed that health literacy and self-efficacy are a stronger determinant of preventive
UTI behavior) to conclusion.
The introduction is very good, including the literature review, but it is very long, so you have
to shorten it.
The methodology is very good, including all required data about the study design, setting, sample
size, and sampling procedure.
just add the references of the questionnaire tools in section 2.2. Measures.
The statistical tests used were very suitable and in accordance with the study objectives.
In the results, correct the numbers in rows 296–297 according to the result mentioned in table 1.
The tables were presented in a very clear, simple, and understandable way.
The discussion: very good and informative.
shorten the conclusion and limitation sections.
Reformat some of the references according to journal style guidelines.
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 13 Dec 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors greetings:
Thank you for your kind response to clarify  the highlighted points that sent to you
you can make chart or diagrams in addition to your tables to engage more readers
Regards
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 17 Dec 2022
Reviewer:  Taqi Tahir
Reviewer's report:
In abstract design, the age range must be from the smaller to the larger (18–42) years.
At the end of keywords, put a point rather than a semicolon.
Some grammatical corrections are required.
In the methodology section, is the first type of error to be substituted by a type-one error.
In the result section, housekeepers mean housewives. It is better to replace.
Write some textual representation (description) for table 2.
the sentences in rows 278–279 (It is obvious from the information in table 4 that the correlation
between preventive be-haviors of UTI, health literacy, and self-efficacy was larger than other
outcomes). Rather than being a result, it is more likely to be a topic of discussion.
In rows 381 and 410, the word "suffusion" must be replaced with "sufficient."
Finally, rows 458–460 are better off being removed. The conclusion is still long.
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 2 Date: 28 Dec 2022
Reviewer:  Lamya A Alkarem Darwish
Reviewer's report:
Reviewer’s Report
Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Abstract
provide the important and essential information of the article
The research focus on an important and common problem with vision to improve health
promotion programmes
the manuscript well organized and written clearly in standard English
Line 40: It’s better to say “Our objectives  were
Line 41:  UTI prevention behaviors in pregnant women, and whether health
Introduction
Line 107: “Limited health literacy among pregnant women is a major public health problem
be-cause the health of both the fetus and the mother is associated with the mother’s health
behaviour”.  I don’t think you need this sentences because it has the same meaning  of the
previous sentence in line 99-100.
Also you can summarized the introduction as there are many repetitive sentences
Methodology
Sample size was good and using a well known questionnaires  was accurate and well used
Data collection very well explained The data collection tool was a reliable and valid
questionnaire
Results
Line 253 :How can authors claim (52.1, 57.1)% to be representative of “majority” of the
respondents?
Could the significant correlations found between the respondents’ sense of self-efficacy and
their health preventive behaviour  be due to any other confounding factors?
Discussion
I would like to know the influence of the spouse knowledge, behaviour, income on the pregnant
incidence of UTI ?
Authors should explain why their study findings showed that the level of health literacy has
decreased compared to a study that was conducted by Charghcheian et al., in 2019.
It provide sufficient in-depth discussion
Conclusion
The study  findings help to better explain the modifiable mechanism to control and manage UTI
and health care delivery during pregnancy even in low-middle income countries.
It looks much better to have  recommendations  that help policy maker to address this
problem( UTI in pregnant women).
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent taken from the participates
There is no conflict of interest to declare
References
References are appropriate and adequate to related works. It covered sufficiently in the list
Note: I have lighted my notes in a green colour
Recommendation
In my opinion the article may be accepted for publication with correction.
Dr Lamya A Alkarem Darwish
MBchB, MRCP(UK)
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine,
Al-Ameed College of Medicine, Al-Ameed University
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 3 Date: 03 Feb 2023
Reviewer:  Taqi Tahir
Reviewer's report:
Thank you very much for this last revised article. All points mentioned by the reviewer were
clearly resolved. All required correction were made.
Title: Examining Health literacy and Self-efficacy levels and their Association with Preventive
Behaviors of Urinary Tract Infection in Iranian Pregnant Women: Across sectional study
Version: 3 Date: 24 Feb 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear Sir
Thanks for your concern.
The article is of a high scientific approach but still there is a need to deal with DATA in simple
technique to reach a clear and obvious results and findings.
the NOTES were applied inside the article to be considered again.
With my best regards and many thanks
Assistant Professor Dr Waleed Aref Tawfeeq
MBChB MSc PhD in Community Medicine, PHC & Epidemiology
Title: Facilitators and barriers to engaging with the DREAMS initiative among young women
who sell sex aged 18-24 in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study
Version: 3 Date: 21 Jan 2023
Reviewer's report:
The focus of this article was to identify barriers and facilitators to engagement in DREAMS
social protection programs among young women who sell sex. This article was strengthened by
a large purposive sample of participants who had accessed varying social protection programs
as well as the application of the Theoretical Domains Framework. This article was well written
and offers important perspectives about the complexities of implementing social protection
interventions. I offer the following comments to strengthen the manuscript.
Major comments
The results section is very rich and provides very nuanced perspectives on participants
experiences within DREAMS. What is missing, is more perspectives from those who never
enrolled. There is a small paragraph about the 15 participants who either never enrolled or
withdrew, but there is only one quote from a participant who never enrolled. While the barriers
are likely similar for this group compared to those who were enrolled, it may be helpful to know
what those differences are.
A longitudinal analytical approach was used; however, it is unclear how the added strength in
this design was utilized. The authors should include more information about how barriers and
facilitators may have changed over time. Among participants who were interviewed multiple
times, were they generally sustained in their social protection program?
Additionally, I am wondering a little bit about the role that offering social protection programs
may have had on uptake. According to table 4, 30 of 43 participants were offered social
protection programs. Were all participants offered these programs? Are these programs of
interest to this group?
Minor comment
Table 3 can be eliminated. All demographic data is included in Table 3 and the summarized
main demographic information can remain in the results section.
Title: Facilitators and barriers to engaging with the DREAMS initiative among young women
who sell sex aged 18-24 in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study
Version: 3 Date: 04 Feb 2023
Reviewer:  Andrés Gaeta-rivera
Reviewer's report:
It was a pleasure to read your manuscript, It definitely contributes to the reference literature to
improve public health programs.  Even though I believe you match the criteria, I have a few
suggestions:
a) To maintain a global perspective, frame it under de Sustainable Development Goals.
b) Also, from an intersectional lens, specify why transgender young women were not included.
Title: Associations between dietary patterns and an array of inflammation biomarkers and
plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women
Version: 2 Date: 30 Jun 2022
Reviewer's report:
# Review
- The abbreviations in the Abstract section and throughout the text should be explained when
first mentioned.
- The Introduction section should be extended with more information on the postmenopausal
state since the Authors investigated the associations between dietary patterns and an array of
inflammation biomarkers and plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women.
- The two paragraphs related to Principal component analysis (PCA) should be moved into the
Statistical analysis subsection.
- Sample size and power of study need to be addressed.
- In Table 2 the levels of some inflammatory markers should be presented as median
(interquartile range).
- The units for lipid parameters in Table 3 are missing.
- The units for some parameters in Table 4 and 5 are redundant.
- The following statement should be explained in more detail: “However, the limitation of the
study lies in the fact that this is a cross-sectional study and the sample size, therefore more
studies are warranted to examine the effect of diet on these inflammatory biomarkers”.
Title: Associations between dietary patterns and an array of inflammation biomarkers and
plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women
Version: 2 Date: 09 Jul 2022
Reviewer:  Nataliia Grygorieva
Reviewer's report:
The review of the article «Associations between dietary patterns and an array of inflammation
biomarkers and plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women» submitted to the «BMC
Women's Health».
Authors: Bolaji L. Ilesanmi-Oyelere and Marlena C. Kruger.
Final decision: It is an interesting, and well-written article that can be recommended for
publication after important (major) changes.
Abstract.
The objective should be re-assessed and the design of the study should be added.
Materials: a more extensive description of the Study population and Four dietary patterns should
be presented.
Results: the authors should clarify who the research results refer to in the first two sentences
(whole group, individual patterns).
Method (Study participants).
The authors should present a more extensive description of the study population. Also, the
women's quantity in each group is not presented.
The Study sample calculation and Data presentation (M/SD?) are not presented.
Results
The authors should clarify the title of tables 2 and 4 (who has it? the whole group?).
The results from Table 2 demonstrate the non-parametric distribution (SDs more than Means)
and should be presented in another way.
Not all abbreviations are in the Note (MCP-1, tables 2 and 4
The information about T1 (low), T2, and T3 (high) is unclear (should be added in the Note).
Multiple linear regression is not used in the case of nonparametric distribution of study
parameters.
The demographic and anthropometrical characteristics are presented in Table 3 after the other
findings (it should be moved above (early)).
Tables 4-6 are too large and difficult to understand. These results need to be presented in a
different way
Some technical and grammar errors are present and should be removed.
Best wishes, Reviewer
Title: Associations between dietary patterns and an array of inflammation biomarkers and
plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women
Version: 4 Date: 15 Feb 2023
Reviewer:  Nataliia Grygorieva
Reviewer's report:
The second review of the article «Associations between dietary patterns and an array of
inflammation biomarkers and plasma lipid profile in postmenopausal women», which was
submitted to «BMC Women's Health».
Authors: Bolaji L. Ilesanmi-Oyelere and Marlena C. Kruger.
The review of this article revealed that 1) it is enough interesting, and well-written article, 2)
the authors performed some important changes which improved the article text. However, some
important issues are still present and should be corrected.
The data presentation in table 2 is not clear (Means?)
What does it mean T1-T2-T3 (without any description previously)). It is the comment from the
previous review.
Table 3. What additional information does the data representation of the correlation coefficient
in thousandths (example, 0.252)?
Tables 5-6 are too large and difficult to understand. These results need to be presented in a
different way. It is the comment from the previous review.
There are still presented some grammar and technical errors (for example, post menopause and
postmenopause)
Best wishes, Reviewer
Title: Predicting cervical cancer screening behavior among women in southern Iran: A cross-
sectional study with PEN-3 model
Version: 0 Date: 16 Apr 2023
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors:
The article contains valuable results and is done for the first time in the country using this model.
Please note a few points in order to enrich the article:
In table number three, all the explanations are given in the text, it is suggested to remove the
additional explanations from the text and only refer to the general ones.
Mention the strengths of the study.
Title: Predicting cervical cancer screening behavior among women in southern Iran: A cross-
sectional study with PEN-3 model
Version: 0 Date: 16 Apr 2023
Reviewer:  Camilla Di Dio
Reviewer's report:
In my opinion, the analyzed topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention.
The aim of this  study is to predict cervical cancer screening behavior with PEN-3 model among
women residents of Bandar Abbas. I think that the abstract of this article is clear and well
structured.
In my opinion, the discussion could be studied in depth and extended. Maybe, it could be
useful the evaluation of the state of the art of current algorithms of prevention in cervical
cancer (PMID: 35455328). Also could be useful the analysis of the outcomes on patients with
positive margins after conizations in order to sensitize women to screening protocols (PMID:
36992282).Tables' layout could be improved. Moreover, an extensive correction of the English
should be performed.
Because of these reasons, the article should be revised and completed. Considered all these
points, I think it could be of interest for the readers and, in my opinion, it deserves the priority
to be published after minor revisions.