Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: A qualitative study of Filipina immigrants' stress, distress and coping: the impact of their  
multiple, transnational roles as women  
 
Version: 0 Date: 13 Apr 2016  
 
Reviewer: Solvig Ekblad  
 
Reviewer's report:  
 
Thank you for your interesting study which is time concerned and unique that you take up the 
analysis by the post -colonial feminist perspective in order to examine the process by which 
gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic sta tus interact with contextual factors in the Fililpina 
women's lives and influence wellbeing. I have some thoughts to the following issues:  
 
 
- you mentioned on page 6 under "Sample" that six women had children, but how many 
(min -max, median) and where did th ey live (in Norway or in the home country). Did they 
come directly to Norway or have they been living abroad before?  
 
 
- in the end of Analysis, page 7, usually, one writes about anonoumeus citations in the text 
to describe...this is missed  
 
 
- In the Result s ection, you sometimes write how many answered as well as including 
references. In qualitative studies one usually not writes the number (instead, common, 
uncommon, etc...), and references are for the discussion  
 
 
- in the Discussion part, a subheading of Met hod Discussion is missed, and I recommend 
you to write more about how you validated the data (trustworthiness, Graneheim UH, 
Lundman B. Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and 
measures to achieve trustworthiness. Nurse Ed uc Today. 2004;24(2):105 -12.) Did the 
informants have the possibility to read the results?  
 
 
- How to implement the results?  
 
 
- Future research question?  
 
 
 
 
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.  
 
No 
 
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 speci fy what aspects require further 
assessment in your comments to the editors.  
 
Not relevant to this manuscript  
 
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:  
 
Acceptable  
 
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