Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Predictors of HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Knowledge and Acceptance
attitude towards people living with HIV/AIDS among unmarried young females
in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Study.
Version: 
0 
Date: 
27 Feb 2020
Reviewer: 
Longla Acheliu
Reviewer's report:
This is quite an interesting piece of work that was well written, with a good
abstract, introduction, results and discussions. However, I recommend the
following corrections for clarity.
INTRODUCTION - 
on line 53, ........constitutes 20% or about 20% and not to
20%
- 
line56, .....live in sub-Saharan Africa (s in sub- is supposed to be in small
letters and you omitted Africa ) and the abbreviation SSA should come
immediately after 'sub-Saharan Africa)
- 
line 88, Youths (with an s)
- line 91, .....of the young people on......, not young age
METHODS 
- 
on study population, you included some results i.e. the total
number of women used for the analysis (1987, which is different from 1971 you
mentioned in the results chapter), which is not appropriate. Include this in the
results section rather. 
- concerning the independent variables, the knowledge of the women on
HIV/AIDS (which is one of the outcome variables) was used as a predictor
variable to acceptance attitude towards PLWHIV but you did not tell us in the
methods section 
- under statistical analysis (line 159), the variables presented only on tables.
There were no graphs so take off the graphs
- between line 161 and 162, you mentioned that you used uni-variate and
multivariate logistic regression analysis on the independent variables that were
significantly associated with the dependent variables on chi 2 analysis. This is
not the right terminology to use because uni-variate analysis concerns summary
statistics like mean of one(uni) variable. So the appropriate term is multivariate
analysis since you already did a bi-variate analysis using the chi2. So you need
to correct this right to the results section.
RESULTS 
- 
on table one, most of the totals of the various categories are less
than 1971 women. 
I presume it is as a result of missing data but you need to
make this clear, may be under the table. Also on the same table, the last column
labeled "Percentage(%) has entries of figures with the % sign again. You need to
take them off since the title of that column already indicates that the figures you
entered are percentages. 
- 
on line 186, there is a word that is missing between 'time and had'
- on table 6, why did you put an asterix on some p-values. 
DISCUSSION - on line 318, ......women who have ever been .....(have is
missing)
CONCLUSION - 
on line 390, there are a couple of commas that are missing.
There need to be one between people and young and another after females.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.
No
Does the work include the necessary controls?
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the
authors.
Yes
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.
Yes
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you
recommend an additional statistical review?
If an additional statistical review is recommended, please specify what aspects
require further assessment in your comments to the editors.
I am able to assess the statistics
Quality of written English
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:
Needs some language corrections before being published
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