Title: A Comprehensive Health-promoting Neighborhood Intervention to Improve Health Care
Seeking Behavior Among Reproductive age Iranian Women
Version: 1 Date: 15 Dec 2022
Reviewer:  Lamya A Alkarem Darwish
Reviewer's report:
Reviewer’s Report
Article: A Comprehensive health-promoting neighbourhood intervention to improve health care
seeking behaviour among Iranian reproductive-aged woman
Title
the title is adequate for the content, informative, concise, and clear
Abstract
It is comprehensive by itself and provide the important and essential information of the article
The research focus on an important and common problem in the developed and developing
countries with aim to help improve health promotion programmes.
the manuscript well organized and written clearly enough to be accessible to non-specialists, the
reporting allow you to understand the research.
The language is appropriate for professional communication. The article is  well presented  and
is written in standard English
Method & data analysis
Starting from the questionnaire  it was clear that the authors were keen to  get  the reflections of
the women in their society which make the study more transparent and objective. This was done
by using a qualitative study as a pilot study with 22 women of reproductive age and health stuff
through which they have extracted the questionnaire items and also used the related literature.
The data and analyses fully support the claims. The data was sufficient and provide an accessible
review of the study.
The methodology sufficient to allow the experiments to be reproduced and the data support the
conclusion.  Tables are essential and clearly presented
The research meets all applicable standards for the ethics of experimentation and research
integrity ; The study has ethical approval and consent was taken from the participants. in
addition, the information that provided considered non confidential and also there was no
competing interests in author contributions.
There are some points that I want to mention; The strength of this research is
1) Using the cluster sampling and
2) The theoretical framework in collecting their data.
3) Also the age of the participants ( control & interventional group) is close which make the
comparison more realistic.
The down side of the research approach is depending on self-reporting of the respondents,
which more relay on the respondents interpretations and assessment . I would prefer to use more
objective tool to have a more accurate information in assessing any intervention.
I recommend to have a bigger sample size and to have females from different back ground and
lifestyle like females who live in urban and rural areas.
Results and discussion
The article adheres to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards for data
availability. Results reported have not been published elsewhere. It provide sufficient in-depth
discussion of the application of a physical principle
the article contain material that is new or adds knowledge to the existing published information
in this part of the world
References
References are appropriate and adequate to related works. It covered sufficiently in the list
Recommendation
In my opinion the article may be accepted for publication without correction.
Dr Lamya A Alkarem Darwish
MBchB, MRCP(UK)
Member of Royal College of Physicians , London, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
Al-Ameed College of Medicine, Al-Ameed University