Reviewer’ s report
Title: Evaluating the Effect of an educational program on increasing cervical cancer screening
behavior among rural women in Guilan, Iran
Version: 1Date: 29 Apr 2020
Reviewer: Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare
Reviewer's report:
Evaluating the Effect of an educational program on increasing cervical cancer screening behavior
among rural women in Guilan, Iran (BMWH-D-20-00145R1)
Thank you for the opportunity to review this interesting and useful paper. I recommend some
changes to improve the manuscript which are as follows:
Introduction
1.Author(s) explain more about pop smear, please summarize it and highlight the prevalence ofusing pop smear in Iran and rural area in Iran2.Please mention the prevalence of cervical cancer in Iran and Gilan?3.Please add previous studies related to educational program for cervical cancer4.What is advantage of diagnosis of cervical cancer in early stage, what is the benefit of thiseducational program (mention in introduction)
Method
5.What is the author mean by "rural health and treatment center"?
6.What is duration of this study (mention months and year of study done)?
7.In sampling method, need more explain like, what is your sampling frame, how you create it,how randomly divided participants to intervention or control group (randomization),…..8.What is your sample size formula used for calculating sampling size?9.It is better divide method part into main sub-section like design, recruitment and eligibilityscreening, sampling method and randomization, sample size, instrument, development ofintervention, intervention, data analysis.10.Please create one table and mention about details content of education module.11.What is the name of educational module, how develop this module, please explain and writereferences?12.Regarding instruments, it creates by author or standard one, if some part develops by researcherplease add the references.13.Ministry of Health in Iran provide educational program or educational material regardingcervical cancer and also all health house/ health care center have these docs and pass it to women,my question is this, how you control this issue, how you find at the end of study change in theknowledge of women is because of your educational module not does provide by ministry ofhealth,…?14.When, where and how participants fill up the questionnaire? How author control contamination
between participants?
15.How follow the participants within two months?
Result
16.In method, author mention 1 point give for yes and 0 give for no idea and no, how author createtable 2 if they give 2 number (0 and 1)?17.In table 2, its better compute no idea and no in one category as "NO", usually the people don'thave idea means don't know about this issue?18.In result section, only presents the data (between group), how about within group (please createtable or figure over time)
Discussion
19.Please, detail explain about limitation and strength of this study (its so brief)20.What is implication to practice based on the result of this study21.Improve discussion based on the new table
I hope that this information is useful to the editors and authors. Finally, to draw a conclusion, I
believe the authors should do the above MAJOR corrections before you publish it.
Regard
Dr. Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.
NoDoes the work include the necessary controls?
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.
YesAre the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.
No
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 furtherassessment in your comments to the editors.
I am able to assess the statistics
Quality of written English
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