Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Factors associated with health-related quality of life in women using path
analyses: Mediation effect of the adiposity traits
Version: 
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Date: 
29 Feb 2020
Reviewer: 
Parvin Abedi
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Structural equation modeling for the association between general obesity, eating
behavioral patterns, sleep quality and quality of life among reproductive age
women: A cross sectional study in northwest of Iran
Thank you for inviting me to review the above-mentioned manuscript. Please see
my comments as follow:
Abstract: the conclusion of abstract is similar to aim of study: The present study
investigated the relationship between sleep quality, quality of life, eating
behaviors and general obesity in women of reproductive age. 
Please re-write the abstract according to the guidelines of journal. 
Background:
1. Page 4: please mention the year of study when you address the prevalence of
obesity in Iran. 
2. Please remove sentences about life expectancy in the background. 
3. Lines 76-82 are more appropriate for method section. Also, lines 91-96 are
more appropriate for method section. Please move them to the method section. 
4. This study has some grammatical and typo errors and should be revised by a
native English speaker. 
Method
1. In the beginning of the method section authors indicated that they invited
women by advertisement, and then in later sentences, they claimed that women
referred to the nutrition clinics in Tabriz. It seems that authors recruited women
on-randomly, if so, please mention. 
2. About PSQI questionnaire, did authors use roommate comments about sleep
quality of participants?
3. Please state if the PSQI was validated to use in Iran with reference. 
4. What is the minimum and maximum scores of SF-36?
5. Please explain how did you gather data? By interview or participants
completed questionnaires by their own? In case of interview, who performed
interviews?
Results
1. While the title of this manuscript is "association between general obesity,
eating behavioral patterns", table 1 shows that mean BMI of participants is 29.19
with SD 4.14. it seems that most participants were not obese, and just they were
overweight. Please explain.
2. Table 1: what authors mean about unemployed? Do they mean housewife?
3. And again, what authors mean about without income. Instead of with income
and without income I suggest that authors ask participants that how they estimate
their economic situation?
4. Table 2: please put mean and SD in one column. 
Discussion
1. Please write the objective of the study at the beginning of the discussion.
2. The discussion section is lacking justification in case, authors' findings were
not similar to other studies. 
3. Authors did not recruit participants randomly and authors should mention this
matter in the limitations of the study. 
4. What are the clinical benefits of this study? Please indicate in the conclusion.
5. 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
If not, please specify what is
required in your comments to the authors.
Yes
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 recommend additional statistical review
Quality of written English
Please indicate the quality of language in the
manuscript:
Needs some language corrections before being published
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